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Volume 51, Issue 10
1 October 1979
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| October 01 1979

First Solar‐powered Manned Flight Available to Purchase

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1979
Aircraft Engineering (1979) 51 (10): 15–16.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb035563

The concept of solar‐powered flight has been considered so far in the future, that most people have not given it much attention. Not so with Larry Mauro, president of Ultralight Flying Machines, a 7 year old company that produces ultra‐light kits for gliders. For Larry, unusual ideas are a way of life.

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