First solar plane for Internet publishing






Facebook Inc. said it completed a successful test flight of the unmanned aircraft Solar hopes to help extend Internet connectivity services to include all parts of the ground.
 Wrote Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook on his page in Facebook that "Aquila" light aircraft Facebook allocated to the heights towering weight, flew at an altitude of several thousand feet for 96 minutes in the "days", Arizona.
The company hopes to eventually own a fleet of "Aquila" aircraft can fly one of them for a period of three months at a time at an altitude of 60 thousand feet (18,290 meters) and communicate with each other to help connect to the Internet.
And pumped Olfabt parent company Google also funds to facilitate Internet connectivity in areas with poor services through "Project Loon" project, which seeks to use the balloons flying to facilitate Internet access in remote areas of the world high altitudes.
He said Yael Majoayar director of engineering at Facebook in an interview that the company had hoped to start flying "Aquila" for 30 minutes.
He added: "We are surprised about what happened in the first of our travels. There are still a lot of technical challenges that must be addressed in order to accomplish the whole mission."
He said that Majoayar
 Aquila will play several test flights, expressing the hope that the crash soon the world record for the longest flight by plane unmanned solar-powered and currently registered two weeks

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