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The Skydweller drone’s heroic final flight lasted eight days despite a storm and still almost made it home.

Drone maker Skydweller Aero asked a very simple question a few years ago: Why bother landing? The company aims to create a sustained-flying aircraft, an airliner-sized UAV that harnesses solar panels to drive electric propellers on its wings. Well, the drone’s latest test flight (part of a full-blown US

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FCC no longer afraid of Chinese toys, lifts ban on very cheap drones

sergeyrizov/getty images After banning the sale of all new model foreign-made drones in the US in December, the FCC has started to loosen up a bit. Going forward, so-called “toy drones” will be allowed on US store shelves, even if they are made in another country. Yes,

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