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January 10th 07, 03:58 AM
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Solar powered aircraft. Was: Can Aircraft Be Far Behind?
Larry Dighera wrote:
http://www.teslamotors.com/ The world altitude record for propeller-driven aircraft belongs not to one powered by an internal combustion engine but by... .... a solar electric powered aircraft! Specifically the NASA Pathfinder planes: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/n...-034-DFRC.html "During 1998, the Pathfinder was modified into the longer-winged Pathfinder-Plus configuration. On Aug. 6, 1998, the modified aircraft was flown to a record altitude of 80,201 feet for propeller-driven aircraft on the third of a series of developmental test flights from PMRF on Kaua'i." 
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