Helios tentatively set to make record-setting flight on Aug. 11
A prototype of the unmanned Helios solar-powered plane is being readied for a flight that NASA said could set an altitude record for non-rocket powered winged aircraft. The flight, from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai in Hawaii, is tentatively slated for Aug. 11...
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