The Solar Challenger was a solar-powered electric aircraft designed by Paul MacCready's AeroVironment. The aircraft was designed as an improvement on...
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The Gossamer Penguin was a solar-powered experimental aircraft created by Paul MacCready's AeroVironment. MacCready, whose Gossamer Condor in 1977 won...
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MacCready and AeroVironment to carry on with experimental aircraft: the Gossamer Albatross, which crossed the English Channel; the Solar Challenger,...
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Electric aircraft (redirect from Solar airplane)
MacCready Gossamer Penguin first flew carrying a pilot in 1980. The MacCready Solar Challenger was first flown in 1980, and in 1981 flew 163 miles from Pontoise...
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August 25, 2010. "Paul Maccready". lemelson.mit.edu. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved June 8, 2018. "Paul B. MacCready, 81; inventor of human-powered...
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another aircraft and did not take off on its own. The first was the MacCready Solar Challenger in 1981 and the second used electric motors powered by hydrogen...
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web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Solar Challenger (1980). "Solar Challenger" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-20...
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configuration, and era AstroFlight Sunrise Mauro Solar Riser MacCready Solar Challenger "UK's first solar aircraft takes off", Flight International, 30 June...
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that designs and manufactures unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Paul B. MacCready Jr., a designer of human-powered aircraft, founded the company in 1971...
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pointed out that there were previous such flights, including MacCready Solar Challenger as long ago as 1981, and Airbus now say it was the "first all-electric...
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