Design Philosophy of an Automatic Checkout and Launch System for a Drone

A system is described by means of which a drone can be automatically checked out and launched from a remote location over a period of less than 12 minutes from "go-ahead" by relatively low skilled personnel. The features of the system are its simplicity, the rapidity with which the complete sequence is accomplished and the ease of fault recognition. One of the more interesting design problems solved was the automatic control and monitoring of turbojet engine operation.