Tiny Drone Crosses Atlantic

An 11-lb. aircraft flew 1,888 mi. across the Atlantic this month, re-creating the 1919 flight of Royal Air Force pilots John Alcock and Arthur Whitten-Brown, and provisionally setting records for distance and endurance. The Aug. 9-11 flight fulfilled a two-decade quest by Maynard L. Hill of Silver...

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