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The four chief Winds were Boreas, the North Wind, in Latin Aquilo; Zephyr, the West Wind, which had a second Latin name, Favonius; Notus, the South Wind, also called in Latin Auster; and the East Wind, Eurus, the same in both Greek and Latin.

“I decided I’d get bored, flying back and forth from the same place,” said Mr. France, 30, the chief executive of a drone start-up called Aquilo, which is based in Fairbanks and was founded by engineers from the University of Alaska.

Aquilo and K2 Dronotics are both focused, at least for now, on commercial data collection — Aquilo in scientific and industrial applications, K2 Dronotics in remote-area mapping.

After years of gigging in his band Fletcher thinks the live aspect to Aquilo will be very important.

When I first heard Aquilo's debut track, Calling Me, I immediately stopped what I was doing.