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Volume 53, Issue 3
1 March 1981
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| March 01 1981

Lightweight Solar‐powered Aircraft Flies Two Hours Non‐stop

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1981
Aircraft Engineering (1981) 53 (3): 31.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb035714

Powered directly by the sun's rays, a lightweight aircraft flew for two hours high above the Arizona desert in early December of last year before a heavy rainstorm cut off its “fuel supply” and forced it to guide to a safe landing.

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