At dawn on June 28, one future vision of mobile broadband Internet connectivity for as many as 1.6 billion people took to the sky for the first time. That morning, with the sun barely over the horizon and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg looking on with a big smile, a giant unmanned aircraft named Aquila and sporting the wingspan of a Boeing 737 lifted off from an airfield in Yuma, Arizona. Meant to be a half-hour demo of the propeller-driven, boomerang-shaped aircraft, the flight worked so well, said the company, that its Connectivity Lab decided to let it fly for 96 minutes.
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