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Used by the RAF and Royal Navy to train anti-aircraft gunners from the late 1930s into World War Two, the de Havilland DH82 Queen Bee was the first successful production remote-control target aircraft to enter service — but how did it work? Under the skin of aviation technology and tactics DH QUEEN BEE In 1930 the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) successfully used a floatequipped Fairey IIIF, fitted with automatic equipment and named the Fairey Queen, as a target aircraft. A