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NASA'S HELIOS SOLAR-POWERED AIRCRAFT FLIES OVER HAWAII.
Advanced Materials & Composites News, August, 2001
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Helios, NASA's $15 million solar-powered composite aircraft, targeted for new altitude records, began its first flight over Hawaii. The unmanned, unpiloted aircraft with a 250-foot wingspan is powered by 62,000 solar cells covering 2,000 sf of the wing. Lift-off came at the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
The experimental aircraft, will perform maneuvers at 10,000-foot intervals during its 14- to 16-hour flight, according to project manager John Hicks. Then it will move up to 70,000 feet, and pending success there will move on up to as ...
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