Building a full size drone from a donor GA plane

[GeorgeC]

http://www.proxytechnologiesinc.com/

 

[3393RP]

Rig up some servos, paint it orange and you have a QF-172!

 

[Dav8or]

http://www.proxytechnologiesinc.com/

Looks like a Velocity to me. Is it?

 

[Dav8or]

Rig up some servos, paint it orange and you have a QF-172!

Absolutely. Back in the day, there was the Culver PQ-8 and later the PQ-14 (both designed by Al Mooney) Both were optionally piloted. Either pilot, or radio control. After the war, many were bought surplus and flown by civilian pilots.

 

[G-Man]

Here's a commercially available version of the DA-42 that can be either piloted or autonomous:
http://www.aurora.aero/products/centaur.aspx

 

[JimNtexas]

Maybe 'cause there aren't any people on it and therefore it's not the same thing at all

You can call a dog's tail a leg, but really, it's still a tail. A C172 is C172.