Reginald Leigh Dugmore, known professionally as Reginald Denny, was an English actor, aviator, and UAV pioneer.
Denny in 1924
Image: Reginald Denny autograph
Denny and his daughter in 1922
Denny, 1918
History of unmanned aerial vehicles
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) include both autonomous drones and remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs). A UAV is capable of controlled, sustained level flight and is powered by a jet, reciprocating, or electric engine. In the twenty-first century, technology reached a point of sophistication that the UAV is now being given a greatly expanded role in many areas of aviation.
A BQM-74 Chukar III, turbojet-powered aerial target drone
Winston Churchill, David Margesson and others wait to watch the launch of a de Havilland Queen Bee target drone, 6 June 1941
A Radioplane OQ-3 and its launcher, Wright Field, October 1945
A US Navy OQ-2 shot down by the USS Makin Island during a gunnery exercise off Wakanoura, Japan (October 1945)