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 ...

Solar Flight is developing the SunStar, a solar-powered unmanned aircraft designed to act as an "atmospheric satellite" for long-duration telecommunications. The SunStar is intended to provide ...

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 ...

Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan beat the altitude record for a solar-powered electric plane in a flight that took him soaring to 9,521 metres, his team announced Wednesday. The SolarStratos plane made the ...

The masterminds of sun-powered plane Solar Impulse formally unveiled their new aircraft Wednesday, a year ahead of their planned round-the-world flight. Solar Impulse 2 is the successor of the ...

Sun-powered plane Solar Impulse 2 crashed recently, despite successfully circumnavigating the world in 2016 – Copyright AFP Brendan SMIALOWSKI The experimental ...

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 ...

Join us on the first flight of the Solar Plane V2 in this exciting episode of our Innovative Series! Experience the future of aviation as we test solar-powered flight technology and explore how this ...

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 ...

Deep in the piney woods of south Mississippi, an aerospace company is pushing the boundaries of solar-powered flight. Working from a temporary hangar at Stennis International Airport, a scant ...

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 ...

Everyone has a preference when it comes to travel wear, but one company is hoping someday passengers will sport spacesuits on its craft. That company is SolarStratos, and it has built what it calls ...