that have no Internet,
so how to remedy this problem? Google takes to
the air, April 2014 goggle bought Titan
Aerospace, the company was to create a high-flying, long-endurance
drones that could deliver the internet to parts of the world where it did not
exist, drones like the Solara
50, it is designed to work best at high altitudes, there with solar
panels covering the majority of its 50-foot wingspan, the plane is intended to
spend most of its flight time at 65,000 feet, at that altitude it is
mostly above other air traffic, above weather and free from the ambient risks
inherent in skybound travel, once in place it’s supposed to stay airborne for
up to five years, operating as a high-altitude satellite more than an active
plane, so earlier this month on May Day, a Google-owned drone was up, up
and away and down again as it crashed shortly after take off, though the
news is just coming to light this week, thankfully no one was injured in
the crash somewhere in the sands east of Albuquerque, but dreams
of sky-relayed internet planes are at the least a little deferred, the National
Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the crash, has not yet
published a report on the incident, so no one knows what went wrong, oh well
back to the drawing board!
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