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In a first, NASA drone to overfly hurricane threatening US (AFP)

NASA's Global Hawk weather reconnaissance drone is prepared for flight at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base in California in August 2010.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)AFP - A pilotless NASA aircraft is set to overfly Hurricane Earl on Thursday, in a scientific first to gather data about the potentially-deadly storm front bearing down on the US east coast.


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