Somewhat odd to see that people around here are trying to shoot down a bold idea like that. I would argue that the idea is not at all that "crazy" as some here

Somewhat odd to see that people around here are trying to shoot down a bold idea like that. I would argue that the idea is not at all that "crazy" as some here try to make it sound. The great thing is, that there is a very active RC plane community with many brilliant minds around. For example the arguments, that planes have to land every so often are highly questionable, when there are already long-range planes in reasonable size and weight such as the Tam-26. With relatively unsophisticated components they were able to make the flight across the Atlantic (1888 miles) in about 40 hours ( http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=941744 http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=941744) Countless other efforts are at the moment working on how to solve the problems using solar power for RC planes. And the problems seem to be at least in theory not that unrealistic.