How cool is this? I was (and still am) thoroughly impressed when I heard about QinetiQ using solar energy to fly. The new world record for longest continuous flight is now 14 days set by QinetiQ’s Zephyr, and the drone could have gone longer! Awesome!
Here are a few articles about the record-breaking drone:
http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2010/3rd_quarter/zephyr_-_14_days.html
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/solar-drone-aims-for-a-record/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7577493.stm
Here’s an interesting link that has a bunch of different solar airplane projects from the past and present (NASA crashed one of their prototypes… go figure) : http://www.blazingwings.org/entry/top-12-solar-powered-aircrafts/
1 comments:
that is cool!! oh what is in those bunkers? LOL
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