Show radio used to guide airplanes houston texas in the presence of spectators a monoplane was flown successfully fully by radio control from another plane circling overhead at the municipal airport here this was said to be among the first public bile demonstrations ever made of B prinell principle p le ot of operating motor vehicles cles by radio discovered seven set en years ears ago by robert C E autrey formerly of los angeles who holds three government ul al patents on the invention autrey said lie he had many times before demonstrated the operation of a driverless automobile by radio control but ills his tests heretofore with planes had been made in private the experiment included driving it car by radio control with the master key located in succession in a truck on the field and then in a flying airplane the engine of tile the automobile was wai started by radio control the horns hoins mown and the vehicle vehicle propelled pro polled tor for I 1 ward as carefully as it the wheels had been manipulated by human hands the car was empty during the exhibition hibi tion except for it a collection of batteries in the rear seat anda maze of electric wires the plane which was flown by radio control a five place stinson Det had double controls whitey owen a transport pilot went aloft with the ship to satisfy a government standard requiring it a licen licensed sid pilot when doing any experimental flying over an in corp orated city shortly after taking off he plugged in a switch which put the plane in control of autrey wh who 0 was flying in another ship with t the 11 e master key in ills liand hand autrey kept the radio ship under his hl control for nearly fifteen minutes banking it dipping it and turning it at will once when the two planes become became separated by more than a half a talle mile he lost contact tor for a few minutes but quickly regained control the ships maintained an altitude ranging from rom 1000 to feet when tile the two allies landed owen said that one time lie he find thrown the switch dl disconnecting the radio current and took control of tile the plane himself when autrey by accident dent over controlled it autrey explained that an aviator was guided largely hy by a sense of touch in operating a plane and that autrey flying tile ship by radio control had only his 1113 eyes to guide him in determining whether lie was banking too sli irp autrey said the principle of radio control which lie has perfected holds unlimited possibilities 11 in time of war lie he declared that one man could ea easily a ily control by radio a dozen planes la in night flight |