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pilotless, a.|ˈpaɪətlɪs|
[f. pilot n. + -less.]
Without a pilot; now esp. of aircraft.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. Law 168 Though Rudder-lesse, not Pilot-lesse this Boat. 1806Scott Let. 20 Sept. (1932) I. 317 The pilot-less state in which the political vessel has remained since his [sc. Pitt's] death. 1883Harper's Mag. Aug. 441/2 The pilotless narrows which lead to Fiddler's Green, where all good sailors go. 1909Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 7/2 We only just missed the new spectacle of a pilotless aeroplane. 1922Glasgow Herald 15 Nov. 9 The Army Air Service [U.S.A.] announces that successful tests have been made with automatically controlled pilotless aeroplanes. 1937Aeroplane 16 June 3 (Advt.), A pilotless flyaway plane. 1943R. V. Jones Most Secret War (1978) xxxix. 356 The Germans are installing..a large and important ground organization in Belgium-N. France which is probably concerned with directing an attack on England by rocket-driven pilotless aircraft. 1944[see buzz-bomb s.v. buzz n.1 5]. 1945H. Knight in Penguin New Writing XXIII. 47 Pilotless men whose personalities have been disintegrated by concussion and too many action stations. 1961[see piloted ppl. a.]. 1966M. Woodhouse Tree Frog v. 35 The curious blind look of all pilotless aircraft which stems from having no cockpit. 1974Guardian 18 Mar. 5/4 The pilotless planes, named Falcons, are designed for taking aerial photographs. |