[Chad C. Mulligan]

......a first for the aviation industry......

So all those Predator drones don't count, eh?

[guest7]

"......a first for the aviation industry......

So all those Predator drones don't count, eh?"

And what about....

Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Kennedy family and the eldest of the nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Aug 19, 2014 · Seventy years ago, on August 12, 1944, Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. perished in one of the first American fatalities associated with a pilotless aircraft...

[threefinger]

"So all those Predator drones don't count, eh? "

Since you asked, ... No.

"...all those Predator drones..." are flown by remote control. This was autonomous (which means it was piloted by its own onboard computers).