An electric Solar-powered aircraft is an Solar-powered aircraft powered by electricity, almost always via one or more electric motors which drive propellers.
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16 Facts About Solar-powered aircraft
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Electrically powered model Solar-powered aircraft have been flown at least since the 1970s and were the forerunners of the small unmanned aerial vehicles or drones, which in the twenty-first century have become widely used for many purposes.
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Night flying, such for endurance flights and with Solar-powered aircraft providing 24 hour coverage over an area typically require a backup storage system, which is charged during the day from surplus power, and supplies power during the hours of darkness.
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However, compared to using a power cable, power beaming allows the Solar-powered aircraft to move laterally and carries a much lower weight penalty, particularly as altitude increases.
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Electric Solar-powered aircraft have additional heat generation and end-of-life needs, requiring novel thermal management strategies, power-fade capabilities and battery pack failure modes.
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Such technology would enable fuel cell-electric Solar-powered aircraft equipped with such systems to be fueled by ammonia or liquid organic hydrogen carriers instead of gaseous or liquid hydrogen.
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Hybrid electric Solar-powered aircraft is an Solar-powered aircraft with a hybrid electric powertrain.
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Use of electricity for Solar-powered aircraft propulsion was first experimented with during the development of the airship in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
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The multirotor Solar-powered aircraft is intended to carry four passengers, with a pilot initially and to become self-piloted when regulations allow.
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On 21 October 1973, the Militky MB-E1, a Brditschka HB-3 motor glider converted by Fred Militky and Heino Brditschka, flew for 9 minutes from Linz in Austria: the first electric Solar-powered aircraft to fly under its own power with a person on board, powered by Nickel–cadmium batteries .
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The leader of the project and often pilot of the Solar-powered aircraft is Rudolf Voit-Nitschmann, the head of the institute.
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In March 2015, the Solar-powered aircraft took off on the first stage of a planned round-the-world trip, flying eastwards from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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In late 2000s Chinese manufacturer of radio-controlled models Yuneec International developed and tested several battery-powered manned fixed-wing Solar-powered aircraft, including E430, the first electric Solar-powered aircraft designed to be serially produced, but failed to commercialize them and in mid-2010s turned to the lucrative consumer drone market.
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Taurus Electro was the first two-seat electric Solar-powered aircraft to have ever flown, while the Taurus Electro G2 is the production version, that was introduced in 2011.
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The Solar-powered aircraft was first publicly introduced on 11 May 2016, and first flew on 10 April 2018.
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