The Queen Bee was the first remotely controlled aircraft program to use the name drone, rather than the first serviceable remote aircraft. Earlier Royal Navy experiments already existed. Its bee-themed program name supplied the vocabulary that endured. The Queen Bee therefore belongs in the history of uncrewed aviation terminology, while technical priority rests with its predecessors.
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Why the Queen Bee popularized the name drone
The Queen Bee was not Britain's first serviceable remotely controlled aircraft, but its name helped establish drone as the lasting term.