Skydweller Conducts First Autonomous Flights of Solar Uncrewed Aircraft Written 8 February 2023
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The Skydweller aircraft in flight August 5, 2021. | Credit: New Scientist; YouTube; framegrab
Aviation Week reports that Skydweller Aero “has conducted the first fully autonomous flights of its solar-powered, heavy-payload, long-endurance uncrewed aircraft after equipping the former Solar Impulse 2 with an internally developed fly-by-wire flight control system.”
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The Skydweller aircraft
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