Professor Hayward from the RAeS kept referring to drones throughout his hour long presentation at Cambridge University the other week. looks like the term Drones will be with us for at least another generation of aviation spectators. I do agree that the ends of the spectrum are poles apart Reaper at one end, radio controlled models at the other. I think we did the man in the loop killing people argument in another thread a while back. With the small number of platforms we now have in the UK we could probably give each a nickname anyway. Just like they did the 8 Sqn Shacks.