Hmmmm.....
Got my drone wings back in 1966:
Mind you it werr' tough back then. No sitting in air-conditioned tin boxes in Nevada stuffing our faces with doughnuts - without downlinks, we had to rely on optical flight path assessment and 4-ch rudder and elevator guidance using interference prone 27.120 MHz AM and unreliable single cylinder diesel engines:
Drone operators of today....they don't know they're born!