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Solar Powered UAV to Set Aviation Endurance Record?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the getting-warmer dept.

Iddo Genuth writes to mention that a group of Israeli students is hoping their latest unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) will soon break the world aviation record for endurance that has stood for over 17 years. The piece features a short history of solar power aviation and an interview with the students.

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  1. UAVs? Long range? Oh dear! by mpaque · · Score: 3, Funny

    "... could use these small UAVs, which have a wingspan of only a few meters, to deliver biological agents to its neighbors or if transported, to other countries, including the United States."
    -- Secretary of State Colin Powell in a presentation before the U.N. Security Council, February 5, 2003

    Oh, snap! These are just students trying to set a new endurance record. The purity and essence of our natural... fluids are not at risk. Surely we must issue the recall code immediately.

  2. Still a few bugs in this by sehlat · · Score: 3, Funny

    TFOT recently covered several other ground braking projects developed by students from the faculty of aerospace engineering in the Technion.

    "ground braking"

    Obviously the return and land part of the project needs work.
  3. First test will be... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It will be first tested to guide Israeli bulldozers against Palestinian olive groves.

  4. Re:Well that was fast by garcia · · Score: 2, Funny

    The website is already suspended. Another notch in the Slashdot gun.

    The server runs on solar power. Unfortunately it's cloudy and their reserve ran out w/all the Slashdot traffic.