Posted on Jul 21, 2016
Facebook's Aquila drone completes first test flight
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RP Members have you seen this from Facebook - Air Force and Pilots what do you think?
Check out the video!
As the summer sun rose over the Arizona desert, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his team watched the Aquila lift off the runway at a military installation near the California border, the first time the unmanned solar-powered aircraft had taken to the skies.
Aquila, with the wingspan of a Boeing 737, remained aloft at low altitudes for 96 minutes, more than three times longer than Facebook originally planned. Facebook had been testing a much smaller scale version of Aquila for several months, but this flight a month ago was the first true test of the aircraft.
Check out the video!
As the summer sun rose over the Arizona desert, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his team watched the Aquila lift off the runway at a military installation near the California border, the first time the unmanned solar-powered aircraft had taken to the skies.
Aquila, with the wingspan of a Boeing 737, remained aloft at low altitudes for 96 minutes, more than three times longer than Facebook originally planned. Facebook had been testing a much smaller scale version of Aquila for several months, but this flight a month ago was the first true test of the aircraft.
Facebook's Aquila drone completes first test flight
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
PFC Teresa Walker That's exactly why I posted this - what's up with FaceBook?
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SP5 Mark Kuzinski I guess you can go in different directions when you have billions!
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Thanks for sharing an interesting video of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's Aquila drone test flight COL Mikel J. Burroughs. It is interesting that this drone has the wingspan of a Boeing 737. Obviously this drone is not designed to be a "stealth" drone.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
LTC Stephen F. Nope, but at the altitudes it will be soaring at I doubt many will see it on a regular basis!
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