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Made of wood and canvas for $400 each, the "Kettering Bug" was a small biplane
equipped to carry a bomb load equal to its own weight—300 pounds. Charles F.
Kettering of General Motors designed the Bug to take off from a wheeled trolley
and then detach its wings, allowing its fuselage to dive vertically towards a
pre-programmed target. The U.S. military ordered large quantities of the Bug
during the last months of World War I, but when the war ended the orders were
cancelled.
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