Facebook’s giant internet drone completes first test flight

Facebook FB, +0.32% wants to bring the internet to the whole world — using a giant, solar-powered drone with the wingspan of an airliner.

And it flies on the power of roughly three hair-dryers.

That drone, dubbed “Aquila,” completed its first successful flight in Yuma, Arizona, according to a post on Facebook from Mark Zuckerberg’s account on Thursday.

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