{"id":29790,"date":"2016-09-04T03:49:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T10:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/aquilas-first-flight"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:42:51","slug":"aquilas-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/aquilas-first-flight","title":{"rendered":"Aquila\u2019s First Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebook\/videos\/1320032334691884\" data-width=\"625\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-autoplay=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p>Aquila \u2014 facebook\u2019s solar powered internet drone <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The internet provides information, opportunity and human connection, yet less than half the world has access. We\u2019re proud to announce the successful first test flight of <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/aquila?source=feed_text&story_id=1320032334691884\" data-ft=\"{\u201ctn\u201d:\u201d*N\u201d,\u201d type\u201d:104}\">#Aquila<\/a>, the solar airplane we designed to bring internet access to people living in remote locations. This innovative plane has the wingspan of an airliner but weighs less than a small car and flies on roughly the power of three blow dryers \u2014 incredible!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/facebook?source=feed_text&story_id=1320032334691884\" data-ft=\"{\u201ctn\u201d:\u201d*N\u201d,\u201d type\u201d:104}\">#facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Aircraft.Gallery\/videos\/1320032334691884\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Aircraft.Gallery\/videos\/1320032334691884\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aquila \u2014 facebook\u2019s solar powered internet drone The internet provides information, opportunity and human connection, yet less than half the world has access. We\u2019re proud to announce the successful first test flight of #Aquila, the solar airplane we designed to bring internet access to people living in remote locations. This innovative plane has the wingspan [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,418,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-internet","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39661,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790\/revisions\/39661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}