Although not the first to try and build a DIY solar-powered remote control airplane, [ProjectAir]’s recent attempt is the most significant one in recent memory. It follows [rctestflight]’s multi-year ...

Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan beat the altitude record for a solar-powered electric plane in a 2025 flight that took him soaring ...

ABU DHABI: Solar Impulse 2 was on Monday approaching the end of its epic bid to become the first sun-powered airplane to circle the globe without a drop of fuel to promote renewable energy. When the ...

Solar Flight has introduced the SunStar, a solar-powered unmanned airplane designed as an "atmospheric satellite" for months-long telecommunications operations. The SunStar aims to provide superior ...

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The first solar-powered aircraft took flight on Dec. 5 in Duebendorf, Switzerland. The plane flew nearly 1200 feet, just skimming the ground at an altitude of approximately 3 feet. The entire trip ...

It can’t be very hard for Bertrand Piccard to explain to his family why he wants to fly around the world with only sunlight for fuel. In the 1930s, his grandfather, Auguste Piccard, a physicist and ...

Solar Impulse, a Swiss airplane prototype entirely powered by solar energy, successfully performed its first hours of flight in the morning of April 7. The success came as good news for the 70 ...

There are eight thermoplastic partsalready developed for a solar-powered airplane under development with at least seven more coming. The Solar Impulse is a long-range aircraft currently under study at ...

In 2012, a manned aircraft powered by 11,628 photovoltaiccells covering 2,200 sq ft of wing space will circumnavigate the globe - if aglobal engineering team can make it light enough. Called the ...