The road from model airplanes to robot airplanes

The aim of the paper to point to the main difference between a model airplane operated by a hobby modelist and an unmanned aerial vehicle applied or can be applied by military forces. Nowadays many amateur have begun converting model airplanes into UAVs. The aim of these conversions are mostly aerial photography and video capturing. In more and more cases these systems provide live video and telemetry data that is used to display the current position by a pc. These are publicated as micro UAVs on various Internet portals. Systems like these are barely more than a high quality hobby devices. Not the plane construction, nor the applied electronics nor the software in these devices provides the minimal criteria of the professional usage. The bigger problem is that in many cases the chance of further development is impossible due to the limits of the applied technologies and method in relation of longer range of mission, flight safety questions and mass productivity etc.