https://qz.com/1315864/project-aquila-facebook-is-stepping-back-from-its-plan-to-bring-the-internet-to-the-world-via-giant-drones/ > Facebook is no longer in the business of building giant drones to bring the internet to the world. > The company has ditched part of its troubled Project Aquila, it quietly announced Tuesday (June 26), after news emerged (paywall) that the effort’s head, Andrew Cox, and Facebook’s director of aeronautical platforms, Martin Gomez, had both quit earlier this year.