He also noticed that they can fly for weeks without ever coming to rest.
"It can fly for weeks and months without stopping to fuel because it collects its energy from the sun.
News of Dercon's departure broke in Germany on Thursday night before an official announcement but rumours had been flying for weeks.
Nolan was famously moved after reading of the diaries of doomed explorers Burke and Wills; he arranged to fly for weeks over the red outback with Eddie Connellan's flying mail service in 1947.
Google acquired Titan Aerospace, a US-based startup that makes high-altitude drones, which cruise near the edge of the Earth's atmosphere, while Facebook bought a UK-based company, Ascenta, which is designing high-altitude, solar-powered drones that can fly for weeks – or perhaps longer – at a time.
Sanders will keep fighting, and keep flying, for weeks to come, but as the crowd shuffled out to the strains of David Bowie's Starman – which became the unofficial campaign anthem after the singer's death – the lyrics took on another, less earth-bound, meaning.
The technology could also be used for long-duration aircraft that can fly for weeks at a time at 100,000 feet.
Rumors had been flying for weeks about the new OS and now it's here and it is, at least at this early reckoning, a massive change for the six year old operating system.
To solve that problem, the scientists made use of a hexacopter drone named Mobly which comes in at a meager 38 decibels and can fly for weeks at a time.
Rumors have been flying for weeks that former SAP executive, Vishal Sikka would be joining Infosys as its CEO, and this morning the company made it official, naming him CEO and Managing Director.
