Controlled Flight is a phrase that refers to any flight where they pilot/machine/animal can maneuver and climb & dive through the air. This rules out simply falling.
In December 1903 the Wright Brothers made the best manned flight which was controlled and sustained (i.e. not controlled falling or gliding).
Aircraft are controlled in flight by the use of main control stick operating the ailerons and elevator, and the rudder pedals operating the rudder.
The Wright brothers made the first provable, powered, controlled flight in 1903.
Harry Houdini
Possibly to produce stability or a semi-controlled flight (?)
120 feet in 12 seconds.
The pilot must close the flight plan with the nearest FSS or other FAA facility upon landing.
A flight manifest is a legal document and must be securely controlled by the airlines to protect the privacy of each passenger.
Harry Houdini made the first controlled powered flight in Australia ,on the 18th March 1910, at Diggers Rest. Victoria .
17 December 1903 for the first POWERED controlled flight. They had been flying gliders for some time before that.
The flight deck is the name given to the area from which the aircraft is actually controlled, as in, pilot, copilot, flight engineer, and any other persons that are a part of the crew tasked with the actual control of the aircraft. The cockpit is a part of the flight deck.
Drones are officially well-known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Basically, a drone is a flying machine. The Drone may be remotely controlled or can fly unconventionally through software-controlled flight plans in their embedded systems working in conjunction with GPS. UAV, is preprogrammed prior to flight to do a specific set of tasks on a specific flight path.