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Re:Solar-powered aircraft flown for nearly three weeks witho... by jjcm on Monday October 11, 2021 @02:39PM (#28831437)
From the images on the site it looks like it deploys a sailing kite in addition to the solar powered engines.
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Re:Solar-powered aircraft flown for nearly three weeks witho... by KineticLensman on Monday October 11, 2021 @03:14PM (#28831863)
Oh hi jjcim. Another cool research project from where I used to work. [0] Back in the day, the development building had a great view of the runway during the Farnborough air show and my pals on the Zephyr project would give me a shout if anything interesting was taking off.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Zephyr

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