Directing collective and production company Strike Anywhere produced this short film showing the building of Aquila, Facebook’s first full-scale unmanned aircraft created as part of the social networking platform’s Internet.org effort. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg posted the video to his personal Facebook page, showcasing the efforts of the company’s Connectivity Lab, part of an effort to bring Internet connectivity to the billions of people worldwide who are unconnected.
The film gives audiences a primer on the creation of Aquila, a solar-powered unmanned plane that beams down Internet connectivity from the sky. It has the wingspan of a Boeing 737, but weighs less than a car and can stay in the air for months at a time. This effort is important because 10 percent of the world’s population lives in areas without existing Internet infrastructure.
