Solar-Powered Skydweller Completes First Autonomous Flights

Skydweller

Skydweller takes off on its first autonomous flight from Albacete airbase in Spain.

Credit: Skydweller Aero
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. U.S.-Spanish startup Skydweller acquired the Solar Impulse...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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