{"id":41335,"date":"2024-05-12T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/dh82b-queen-bee-britain-1st-drone-ww2\/"},"modified":"2024-05-12T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T14:00:12","slug":"the-dh82b-queen-bee-what-you-might-not-know-about-britains-1st-drone-from-ww2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=41335","title":{"rendered":"The DH82B Queen Bee: What You Might Not Know About Britain&#8217;s 1st Drone From WW2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            The de Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth was an interwar British trainer biplane. It was developed into an early <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/wwii\/\">WW2<\/a> drone called the Queen Bee. The Queen Bee first flew in 1935 but this wasn&#8217;t even the first drone built by the British. The British built the world&#8217;s first drone (a small radio-controlled aircraft) in 1917 during WW1, called the Aerial Target. Aircraft like the Tiger Moth and its Queen Bee drone variant are overshadowed by <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/second-world-war-iconic-fighter-aircraft-guide\/\">the more iconic aircraft of World War II<\/a> (such as the Spitfire and Messerschmitts). The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/wwii-fighter-aircraft-raf-museum\/\">British made many excellent fighter aircraft in World War II<\/a> (the RAF was perhaps the leading force that crushed the German Luftwaffe).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen Bee was an early aerial target drone that inspired the first remote American aircraft called a &#8216;drone.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,4160,120,408,412,1449,411],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-drones","category-europe","category-history","category-military","category-raf","category-royal-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41336,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41335\/revisions\/41336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}