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Old January 10th 17, 05:14 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Jim White[_3_]
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Default Sailplane-like UAV can fly for days on jet fuel

At 16:42 10 January 2017, wrote:
On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 9:10:02 PM UTC-6, Soartech wrote:
http://newatlas.com/vanilla-aircraft...-record/47295/

Very efficent!


Jet-fuel powered but with a large propeller at the back. Could be a

Diesel
engine driving it. I'm sure there are pistons and gear reductions
involved..
Impressive performance, shows you on how little power a clean airframe

can
sustain altitude.

Taking the JS3 high wing idea a bit far?