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A prototype Amazon Prime Air MK30 delivery drone has joined a Museum of Flight exhibit, highlighting a decade of evolution in autonomous delivery technology. The announcement places the aircraft’s development in a public museum setting, though the available report provides no details on its operational history or exhibit duration.
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A prototype Amazon Prime Air MK30 delivery drone has joined a Museum of Flight exhibit, highlighting a decade of evolution in autonomous delivery technology. The announcement places the aircraft’s development in a public museum setting, though the available report provides no details on its operational history or exhibit duration.
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An expedition to Nikumaroro in Kiribati found no definitive evidence linking a lagoon object to Amelia Earhart’s missing Lockheed Electra 10-E. The Taraia Object team, involving the Archaeological Legacy Institute, Purdue Research Foundation and Purdue University, determined that a promising feature was not aircraft wreckage, leaving the nearly 90-year-old mystery unresolved.
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After a five-day boat journey, a Purdue University research team has arrived at Nikumaroro in the South Pacific to examine the “Taraia Object,” a mysterious feature in a lagoon that may be linked to Amelia Earhart’s missing Lockheed Electra. Earhart disappeared in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world.
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