Monday, July 25, 2016

Facebook Tests a Solar-Powered Internet Drone

Aquila in position prior to takeoff. (From left: Kathryn Cook, technical program manager for Aquila; Yael Maguire, head of Connectivity Lab; Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO; Jay Parikh, global head of engineering and infrastructure)
Pre-flight
Aquila on the runway
Aquila moments after takeoff
Aquila in flight, wing view

On June 28th, Facebook launched Aquila, a high-altitude, unmanned solar-powered airplane, for its first flight at Yuma Proving Ground in Yuma, Ariz.
Although the team has been running tests and practice flights for months, until this point, only a 1/5th scale airplane had been tested.

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