When Model Airplanes First Went to War

These forerunners of modern RPVs helped train WW II gunnery crews to shoot down enemy aircraft By Hugh Maxwell As seen in the July 1992 Model Aviation. The Army called them OQs. The Navy called them TDDs (Target Drone, Denny). By either name they proved to be highly effective training tools. The World War II antiaircraft gunnery crews loved them. Until then, the men had pretty much been limited to towed target sleeves for practicing their aim. These sleeves had several drawbacks. They flew only in a straight line. They didn’t look like airplanes. And you couldn’t…