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August 23, 2007
Another solar-powered aircraft
This is a compilation of clips taken of test flights of NASA's Helios aircraft. It appears to have a fairly substantial wingspan but doesn't seem to carry much payload.
Update: According to this article, Helios was designed to fly at high altitudes and set a record for winged craft of 96,000+ feet in August, 2001. It was lost when it crashed into the Pacific in June, 2003. And that "substantial" wingspan I mentioned was 247 feet.
Posted by joke du jour at August 23, 2007 06:01 PM
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