Full PhD thesis of Solar Autonomous Plane now online - exciting reading! Posted by fom on January 15, 2009 at 3:56pm www.sky-sailor.ethz.ch/There has been a full documentation published for the Sky Sailor project, it is fantastic reading. Download and enjoy!!! Read more…
SkySailor - 27 hours autonomous flight Posted by fom on December 26, 2008 at 4:34pm 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-21June2008.pdfhttp://asl.epfl.ch/aslInternalWeb/ASL/publications/uploadedFiles/FSR05_Sky-Sailor.pdf Read more…
