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    The Aerial Board of Control is a fictional supranational organization dedicated to the control and aid of airship traffic across the whole world. It was...
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    century and describes the Aerial Board of Control, a fictional supranational organization dedicated to the control and aid of airship traffic across the...
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  • explain an entirely fantastic world unknown to any reader, in his Aerial Board of Control universe, starting with the novella "With the Night Mail" (1905)...
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  • Easy as A.B.C. (1912) made use of the "flying loop", generated by one of the airships of the Aerial Board of Control, when a woman tried, as a political...
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    A.B.C." (1912). Both were set in the 21st century in Kipling's Aerial Board of Control universe. They read like modern hard science fiction, and introduced...
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    militaries. As control technologies improved and costs fell, their use expanded to many non-military applications. These include aerial photography, area...
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  • of the Dane". The practice only ceased in 1016, when the Scandinavian ruler Canute the Great invaded England, won its crown, and established control over...
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    introduced by Rudyard Kipling in his own science fiction venture, the Aerial Board of Control stories. Kipling had picked this up during his time in India, using...
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    commonly it is used to pilot a radio-controlled aircraft or other type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) such as a military drone. The operator gets a first-person...
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    research organizations make use of radio-controlled vehicles as well. A rapidly growing application is control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones)...
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    Aerial firefighting, also known as waterbombing, is the use of aircraft and other aerial resources to combat wildfires. The types of aircraft used include...
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    and 1913. His adaptation of Kipling's Aerial Board of Control setting has been described by scholars as "a remarkable piece of extrapolative worldbuilding"...
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    start of the 20th century. The Aerial Board of Control stories and his critique of the British military, The Army of a Dream, were not only very modern in...
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  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) include both autonomous (capable of operating without human input) drones and remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs). The UAVs...
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  • Autonomous aircraft (category Unmanned aerial vehicles)
    which flies under the control of on-board autonomous robotic systems and needs no intervention from a human pilot or remote control. Most contemporary autonomous...
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    Anduril Industries (category Defense companies of the United States)
    the U.S. Department of Defense, including artificial intelligence and robotics. Anduril's major products include unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and counter-UAS...
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  • Richthofen's War (category Aerial board wargames)
    subtitled "The Air War 1916–1918", is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1973 that simulates aerial combat during World War I. Richthofen's War...
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    Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) include both autonomous (capable of operating without human input) drones and remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs). A UAV is...
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    DRDO Ghatak (category Unmanned military aircraft of India)
    powered stealthy unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), being developed by Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) of the Defence Research and Development...
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    Pixhawk (category Unmanned aerial vehicles)
    referred to as an FC, FCB (flight control board), FMU (flight management unit), or autopilot, is a combination of hardware and software that is responsible...
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    board. Uncrewed vehicles can either be under telerobotic control—remote controlled or remote guided vehicles—or they can be autonomously controlled—autonomous...
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  • Sopwith is a board wargame published by Gametime Games in 1978 that simulates aerial dogfights during World War I. Dogfight is a wargame for two to six...
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  • Aerial's director, a young girl fitted inside a glass orb that oversees the production of the drugged food that keeps citizens under Mr. TV's control...
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  • subtitled "Tactical Aerial Combat, 1915–1918", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1972 that simulates aerial combat during...
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    Automated aerial refueling (AAR) refers to methods for autonomous refueling of manned and unmanned aircraft. An Air Force Research Laboratory program was...
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    Helicam (category Aerial cameras)
    remote-controlled mini helicopter used to obtain aerial pictures or motion images using video, still or motion film cameras. The remote controlled camera...
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    The Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (L'Agence pour la Sécurité de la Navigation aérienne en Afrique et à Madagascar, ASECNA)...
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  • Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain is a board wargame published by Histo Games in 1973 that simulates the Battle of Britain. Reviewers noted its marked...
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    An aerial lift, also known as a cable car or ropeway, is a means of cable transport in which cabins, cars, gondolas, or open chairs are hauled above the...
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  • Luftwaffe, subtitled "The Game of Aerial Combat Over Germany 1943-45", is a board wargame originally published by Poultron Press in 1969 under a different...
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