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The FAA's first approved drone flight was to deliver medicine to a remote Virginia town.

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The future of delivering medicine to remote places may have just gotten a little easier.

Last week, the first FAA-approved drone delivery brought medicines from a Virginia airport to a remote pop-up clinic that only treats patients one weekend per year at the local fairgrounds.

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