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RADIO-CONTROLLED FLYING FORTRESS. At 



Enlwetok Island, 190 miles west of Bikini, a B- 1 7 

 Flying Fortress drone plane with its landing flaps 

 down eases in over the beach to a three-point 

 landing. Landings and take-offs of these huge 

 crewless planes are controlled by transmitters on 



the ground. Here the transmitter is mounted in 

 the jeep shown below the plane. Once in the air 

 the drones are controlled by "mother" planes fly- 

 ing near them. Prior to Operation Crossroads, 

 smooth radio-control of planes the size of Flying 

 Fortresses had been thought virtually impossible. 



