SkySailor - 27 hours autonomous flight

I came across a nice project for those interested using some solar power for their UAV. It appears that this relatively small plane was able to fly autonomously for more than 27 hours over 874 km (in big circle, but still...).

http://robotics.ethz.ch/projects/sky-sailor/

http://robotics.ethz.ch/projects/sky-sailor/docs/SkySailor27hFlight...

http://asl.epfl.ch/aslInternalWeb/ASL/publications/uploadedFiles/FS...

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Comment by dincer hepguler on December 27, 2008 at 1:15am
i also have a solar powered uav project and i could not find a suitable small MPPT for my project. i need one similar to what they used in Sky Sailor but there is not any detail about this MPPT in the datasheets about this device except a picture of it... i made a research on the net but only found MPPTs for solar cars (high power), couldnot find a low power, small, light one for our UAV purposes... any help will be appreciated...
Comment by simonl on December 27, 2008 at 7:40am
Does this help? http://www.solarplaza.com/content/productsempty.php?supplier_prod_id=2077&supplier_id=2783&pid=1973&activate=ja&Groepen_id=1&Sub_id=49&SubSub_id=&SubSubSub_id=&Continent_id=&Country_id=&keywords=Enter%20keyword:&language_id=leeg&business=&Orderby=company&Sorttype_comp=DESC

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