Baltimore Hosts First Drone Grand Prix Race

By JACOB TAYLOR, Capital News Service
BALTIMORE (AP) — It’s been a hard road for the unmanned aerial vehicle, the drone.
From the first unmanned balloon bombs sent by Austria to blow themselves up over Venice in 1849, to the little radio-controlled planes used for target practice by the U.S. in World War II, to the company of surveillance drones used by Israel to trigger Syrian surface-to-air missiles in 1982, drones have always been defined by their expendability.
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