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You might be interested in the sun seeker duo. It's in the ballpark for personal air travel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBA4XeMddMY https://www.youtube.c
by state_less 7y ago
You might be interested in the sun seeker duo. It's in the ballpark for personal air travel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBA4XeMddMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBA4XeMddMY
In flight charging (refueling) could be a possibility too.
The drone based solar planes can stay up longer than 5 days. I think the defense companies can keep them up for months.
- marvin 7y agoThat’s incredibly cool. I see they’re using an audio variometer to determine sink/updraft lift as well as using the solar-powered motor during cruise, and operate it as a glider during landing. Assuming they could fly it as a glider as well, although I don’t know how its low-speed performance is wrt. thermalling or stall characteristics.
- Tempest1981 7y agoAlso cool, the adventure of circumnavigation on solar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse Captured on this Nova special: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/the-impossible-flight/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/the-impossible-flight/