As expected, the Zephyr solar plane has officially broken the endurance record for an unmanned aircraft by flying for a whopping two weeks above an Arizona army range. The photovoltaic-powered Zephyr, which touched down on Friday, handily beat the previous world record of 30 hours with a new record of 336 hours!
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High above the US Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, world records are being broken by a waify aircraft called the Zephyr. We recently reported
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@ AS – I know the company name is strange, but please spell it correctly. QinetiQ
Thanks
This hardly proves that Solar powered planes can be used for transportation.
What an invention! I’d love to see it up close and personal.