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Musk flies a drone fleet over the capital. (Luckily, it's not Elon)
The Observer
|August 24, 2025
News that a Musk-owned fleet of drones is flying over London this weekend might be enough to prompt fears of a new Blitz.
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Fortunately, the drones are controlled not by Elon, of Dark Maga fame, but by the younger, far more amiable Musk brother, Kimbal, right, who has embraced drones as a new medium for creating art and entertainment.
On Friday, his drones began a three-day run of a light show interpreting Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in the sky above Sandown Park racecourse in Surrey. The same day, it was announced that Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg is investing in Nova Sky Stories,
This story is from the August 24, 2025 edition of The Observer.
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