Hi all,
Doing a bit of research on the Parnall Peto that was used on the M2 submarine (sadly now sitting on the sea floor off the Dorset coast) when I came across some brief information in the April 1931 issue of 'Flying' magazine.
It wasn't that which caught my eye however but the Jules Verne-ish report on the page below it about automated aircraft. Have a read for yourselves:
No source for this is given however - perhaps tellingly in this instance. I wondered had the writer been pillaging H.G. Wells, but The Shape of Things to Come wasn't published until a couple of years later....