Imagine an aircraft that can stay airborne for weeks, even months, without refueling. This isn't futuristic fantasy. Skydweller Aero is working toward turning this vision into reality with its ...

Elated by the successful completion of the first leg of 'round-the-world' trip in a solar-powered aircraft, CEO of the Solar Impulse Project Andre Borschberg today said he and his partners wanted to ...

Sunseeker II is a hybrid aircraft that uses battery power to take off and increase altitude and can maintain level fight on solar power. The aircraft can also be flown as a glider.

CALVERTON, N.Y. — A test pilot successfully flew a solar-powered prototype aircraft on Friday for a company that envisions manufacturing a fleet of drones to provide aerial internet service for ...

Groundbreaking development in the evolution of small unmanned aircraft systems; advanced solar cells increase hand-launched Puma AE™ endurance by 350 percent Far-reaching implications for small UAS ...

When Sunrise 1, the world’s first solar-powered aircraft, took off in 1974 it was a demonstrator with no practical use. ... Loitering Theater Unmanned Reconnaissance Element.” ...

It weighs as much as an SUV, but its wingspan is wider than a 747's. And Monday, a solar-powered airplane flew over the Gulf of Oman, starting what its pilots hope will be a record-setting trip ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A solar-powered airplane has landed in Pennsylvania, about 17 hours after it took off from the Ohio hometown of America aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright. The Swiss ...

An aircraft with a 72-metre wing-span – larger than a Boeing 747 – yet weighing only 2.3 tonnes, the Solar Impulse 2 has set off from Abu Dhabi on an attempt to circumnavigate the globe ...

Thales is teaming up with Skydweller to equip the latter’s medium-altitude pseudo-satellite (MAPS), a large solar-powered ...

An experimental solar-powered airplane embarked on its first transcontinental flight on Thursday, The Associated Press reported. The Solar Impulse plane left Switzerland and, after a … ...

Commercial aircraft generally operate at altitudes between 33,000 and 42,000 ft, whereas Kea’s solar-powered aircraft can operate above the weather and jet stream.