The team at [Bearospace Industries] has been working on the challenge for the while, and their Solar Dragon aircraft recently had a very successful test flight, producing about 50% more power than ...

Called Solarstratos, the aircraft measures 8.5m in length and 24.8m in wingspan and has a total weight of 450kg. It is covered with 22m 2 of solar panels totaling 5 kW that will power an electric ...

The Solar Impulse 2, a solar-powered aircraft, etched a milestone in green aviation in 2016, by successfully voyaging around the world. Bertrand Piccard, co-founder and pilot of Solar Impulse 2 ...

The Zephyr is not your usual aircraft. It only travels at 40mph, it is launched by hand and it is completely solar-powered. The unmanned craft flies high in the atmosphere, to avoid commercial air ...

The Odysseus by Aurora Flight Sciences ... fly on battery power alone. Together, the three sections would span almost 500 feet. Advanced composite materials and double-sided solar panels are ...

Following a groundbreaking round-the-world trip in the solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2 in 2016, Piccard is flying around the world again – but, this time, using a plane called Climate ...

For [Daniel Riley] AKA [rctestflight] that project is a solar powered RC plane which to date spans 4 years, 4 versions and 13 videos. It is a treasure trove of information collected through hard ...

After 64 days of continuous flight, a solar-powered drone-satellite developed by Airbus Defense and Space crashed in the desert in the US state of Arizona on Aug. 18. The incident did not cause ...

Airbus subsidiary AALTO has launched its first stratospheric flight with a Zephyr air vehicle from a new operating base in ...

Starting in 2015, the solar-powered aircraft spent 16 months flying around the world, except it flew at an average speed of 28 to 34 mph. Solar Impulse 2 is part of a movement in recent years to ...

The one-of-a-kind, upgraded Block 20 Phasa-35 solar-powered aircraft is heading across the Atlantic for its next round of Pentagon-backed tests, and its developers say it could be the key to ...