Facebook's solar-powered drone lands in Arizona
(AP) — A solar-powered drone backed by Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg has quietly completed a test flight in Yuma after an earlier attempt ended with a crash landing.
The drone flew with the engineering team watching a live stream from a helicopter chasing the drone, said Martin Luis Gomez, Facebook's director of aeronautical platforms.
Zuckerberg's long-term plan for the drone, called Aquila, is to have it and others provide internet access to 4 billion people around the world who are currently in the dark.