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Lightweight Solar‐powered Aircraft Flies Two Hours Non‐stop

Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN: 0002-2667

Article publication date: 1 March 1981

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Abstract

Powered directly by the sun's rays, a lightweight aircraft flew for two hours high above the Arizona desert in early December of last year before a heavy rainstorm cut off its “fuel supply” and forced it to guide to a safe landing.

Citation

(1981), "Lightweight Solar‐powered Aircraft Flies Two Hours Non‐stop", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 53 No. 3, pp. 31-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb035714

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1981, MCB UP Limited

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