Mxsmanic wrote:
T o d d P a t t i s t writes:
Refreshing my
memory, one of the guys on the Aeronca mail list describes a
flight from Urbana, Ohio where the pilotless craft reached
13,000' and 100 miles from departure, being chased by the
Highway Patrol in one of their JetRanger helicopters. Fuel
exhaustion eventually brought it down.

Are these verifiable stories, or merely urban legends? While I don't
see anything technically impossible about it, it seems a bit
improbable.

Here's an example of a pilotless airplane that got away after a hand
propping. It didn't fly straight, and didn't land by itself (never got
the chance :-)

http://www.navy.gov.au/units/805sqn/..._Shootdown.pdf