Solar-Powered Plane Flies for 26 Hours

[RJM62]

PARIS — Slender as a stick insect, a solar-powered experimental airplane with a huge wing span completed its first test flight of more than 24 hours on Thursday, powered overnight by energy collected from the sun during a day aloft over Switzerland.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/world/europe/09plane.html?_r=1&hp

 

[rottydaddy]

Outstanding!

Sure, it's just a very nifty motorglider, but this success is a step in the right direction.

 

[Capt.Crash'n'Burn]

How many years before we can get a Lando Calrissian-style cloud city built??

 

[rottydaddy]

How many years before we can get a Lando Calrissian-style cloud city built??

Does that run on solar power, or massive quantities of Colt 45?