I recently asked someone that question about drone vs. RC device and was told that a drone is usually controlled from further away, maybe much further away. An RC device is run by someone standing where they can see it.
They're starting to use those mini-helicopter four rotor things to film news reports. They can be a problem and here in the UK there has been at least one incident where the presence of TV crews with these devices delayed the landing of the air ambulance.
Drones are not actually new. They've used radio controlled aircraft for many years at an airfield not far from here for the RAF to use as target practice. They operated out at sea and, as 19_crows said, were controlled from much further away. Also they were the size of a small aircraft. Of course radio-controlled air craft of various types are not new either, but the division between them seems to be becoming blurred.
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Drones are not actually new. They've used radio controlled aircraft for many years at an airfield not far from here for the RAF to use as target practice. They operated out at sea and, as 19_crows said, were controlled from much further away. Also they were the size of a small aircraft. Of course radio-controlled air craft of various types are not new either, but the division between them seems to be becoming blurred.
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