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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Solar Impulse Flight Trials Expand

This time the huge single-seater has flown from Europe to Africa, partly in daylight and partly at night.  Ultimately, this is a propulsion system test program, but hidden behind that are some serious human-factors issues that will need to be solved for it all to work.  Is this really going to be a UAV with a person aboard?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/green/solar-plane-completes-intercontinental-test-flight/21359

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