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Sky-Sailor Solar Airplane

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Uploaded by on Feb 1, 2007

This a video of tests with Sky-Sailor, a 2.6 Kg solar airplane developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The goal is to stay airborne during many days, using only solar energy
More info on http://sky-sailor.epfl.ch

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  • Add thermal detection and auto-thermalling (circling) and it'll stay up even longer.

  • Ye it does actually last a long time!

  • With battery that are recharged during day

  • electric airliners?

  • how are you going to keep that plane up there at night? nice video and very good plane

  • I would like to see this implemented on a commercial airliner. Im sure it wouldnt be able to run completely off of solar but surely it could make a modified model more efficient.

  • what a fuck .what for this plane

  • less its raining

  • the same concept, but i think they are capacitors rather than batterys.

  • I have a feeling there are batteries which are charged by the sun before launch and the flight time may be extended a bit by in-flite charging. It would be nice if I am wrong.

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