Culver TD2C-1 drone in flight c1945

A U.S. Navy Culver TD2C-1 target drone (BuNo 69547) flown by naval aviator Jack V. Robinson in flight, circa in 1945. In 1940, the U.S. Army Air Corps drew up a requirement for a radio-controlled target drone for training anti-aircraft artillery gunners. The first aircraft in a series of target drones was a modification of the Culver LFA Cadet which eventually led to the PQ-14 series used throughout World War II and beyond. 1,198 were transferred to the U.S. Navy, which designated them as TD2C-1 with the decidedly unattractive name Turkey.

Date

c. 1945

Photographer / author

U.S. Navy

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

image

Original size

1,550 × 1,159 pixels

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