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 | Model planes soaring to new applications |
 Once a kid's backyard toy and now a soldier's battlefield tool, the model airplane may soon expand to new terrain and a less expected set of people: cell phone users.
A California company is testing a pilotless plane that can fly 12 miles high for a week straight with an antenna to beam cell phone and Internet signals places they can''''t go now or, to the frustration of the wireless, only go intermittently.
Telecommunications is just one everyday use envisioned for this kind of plane - called an unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV - which is used by the armed forces for spying, surveillance and bombing missions considered, in industry speak, as too "dull, dirty or dangerous" for service personnel.
But like the Internet before it, thousands of entrepreneurs foresee the technology developed and paid for by the military to be turned into countless civil and commercial uses such as search and rescue, storm chasing, movie filming and utility line inspection. Dozens from the industry came to Baltimore last week for a trade show to display the parts to that future, such as briefcase-sized planes, laptop-sized monitors and hand-held ground controls made in the image of Nintendo.
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