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First flight of Facebook's Aquila

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Facebook announced the first full-scale flight of Aquila, a solar powered UAV with the wingspan of a 737 that weighs "one third as much as a car". More details of the test are available at https://code.facebook.com/posts/268598690180189 (newsroom.fb.com) More...

Jim Nasby
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bentwing60
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Somehow I think "facebook" and their "brethren" will wind up with the money. And George Orwell's "1984" was written by a novelist, not Isaac Asimov!
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