radio-controlled

For example, it is perfectly legal to take pictures of your home from a radio-controlled vehicle.

It's just a radio-controlled model aircraft, which have been around for a long time.

However, FAA has published guidance for operation of radio-controlled vehicles that includes altitude restrictions.

With radio-controlled devices, direction-finding equipment could work but with autonomous drones...?

Two Christmases in a row, I got a radio-controlled car from Radio Shack.

- Was it a cheap radio-controlled toy or something capable of flying BVR or autonomously?

Building a 1:10 scale radio-controlled replica of a Ford Bronco, and the pages on fixing window winders gave me a great example of how I can make it work for my model.

It's also worth pointing out that even the fastest full-size jet aircraft can only just break the sound barrier at sea level (the F-111 did Mach 1.2 at sea level) – going supersonic typically requires flying at a high altitude, which obviously isn't practical or legal for a radio-controlled model aircraft.

The ease-of-use of these modern "radio-controlled aircraft" is unprecedented - vertical takeoff, live video, intuitive controls - making them much more pervasive than ever before.

But 90% of the reporting I see on "drones" is about small radio-controlled aircraft, which have been around since well before the computer.

Radio-controlled, for instance, constantly needs lots of little parts (repairs after flight crashes) as well as space and gear to make the repairs.