Solar-powered aircraft
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Solar-powered aircraft are electric aircraft that can be an airplane, blimp, or airship and use either a battery or hydrogen to store the energy produced by the solar cells and use that energy at nigh
NASA's Pathfinder prototype
Sunseeker solar powered aircraft
Stratobus high altitude airship
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Solar Impulse
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Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project, and also the name of the project's two operational aircraft. The privately financed project is led by Swiss engineer an
Solar-powered aircraft
…Facebook Aquila Solar Impulse - first manned solar aircraft to circumnavigate the globe. Since reconfigured by Skydweller Aero into an uncrewed autonomous drone. Airbus Zephyr…
Solar Impulse 1 landing at Brussels Airport after its first international flight on 13 May 2011
Solar Impulse 1 – fuselage and motors
Solar Impulse 1 during its first "flea hop" test flight in Dübendorf on 3 December 2009
Solar Impulse 1 at Brussels Airport in May 2011