Next year, pilots will fly an aircraft around the world that is powered by four electric motors and 11,000 solar cells on its wings. “E-mobility,” said Ohlmann, “starts now.” ...

The Zephyr is not your usual aircraft. It only travels at 40mph, it is launched by hand and it is completely solar-powered. The unmanned craft flies high in the atmosphere, to avoid commercial air ...

The drone - with a wingspan of 12.5 metres - is to be used for earth observations including environmental monitoring, disaster response and a range of commercial applications.

They could store more power than ever before, leading to planes like the Solar Impulse 2. Starting in 2015, the solar-powered aircraft spent 16 months flying around the world, except it flew at an ...

With so many examples to look at, building a solar-powered RC airplane ... resulting in the airplane plummeting once primary power ran out. Fortunately, all of these are fixable issues, while ...

Recently, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, said the Federal Government plans to ...

Following a groundbreaking round-the-world trip in the solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2 in ... the hydrogen into electricity to drive the electric motors used for rotor propulsion.

Dr Whittlesea said while other hydrogen-electric systems were being developed for aircraft, the technology being used by Stralis was ... Green hydrogen can be produced when it is extracted from water ...

Dr Whittlesea said while other hydrogen-electric systems were being developed for aircraft ... which is powered by a renewable energy source such as solar. The electrical current passes through ...

An electric powered plane, cargo drones and hybrid aircraft have already undergone test flights to and from Orkney and now there’s a push to see how their use can be expanded. Kirkwall Airport ...