in a production of puccini's tour and thought. and in our continuing series 100 german must reads a novel called why we took the car. drones have become really popular in the last 10 years due to technological advances which meant they were easier to control and at the same time federal aviation authorities began to give out commercial licenses soon you could be getting your post and certainly your possibles delivered by drug however i'm exhibition zeppelin museum in frederick solving in southern germany shows that drones in some form or other have been around for centuries. the 1st drone in history launched a frenchman into the sky in 1783 after landing in paris the balloon was attacked by angry foreigners the world as if they had no information whatsoever about this experiment voyage they thought the hot air balloon was some sort of stone or something mysterious in any case.

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