Engineering:Boeing SolarEagle
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SolarEagle | |
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Role | High Altitude, Long Endurance Unmanned aerial vehicle |
National origin | United States |
Manufacturer | Boeing |
Status | Cancelled |
The Boeing SolarEagle (Vulture II) was a proposed High-Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle solar-electric spy plane developed by Boeing Phantom Works.[1]
The proposed aircraft had a wingspan of 393.7 feet (120.0 meters), and was intended to remain airborne for up to five years at a time without needing to land.[2] It had 20 motors of the same type as the Qinetiq Zephyr designed by Newcastle University. Boeing was awarded an $89 million contract by DARPA's Vulture program,[3] with Boeing covering the remainder.[4] It was slated to make its first flight in 2014, but in 2012 the SolarEagle project was cancelled[5] and DARPA's Vulture program was refocused on advancing photovoltaic and energy storage technologies.[6][7]
References
- ↑ Haddox, Chris. "SolarEagle (Vulture II) Backgrounder" Boeing Phantom Works, September 2010. Retrieved: 18 October 2010.
- ↑ "Remote robots: Human-free by land, sea and air". https://www.newscientist.com/gallery/drones/.
- ↑ "Boeing Wins DARPA Vulture II Program". MediaRoom (Press release). September 16, 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
- ↑ "The pilotless plane that can stay in the air for years". 27 July 2011. Archived from the original on 27 September 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120927021154/http://ukinegypt.fco.gov.uk/en/business/ukti-news/air. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ "Facebook's UAV Flies, Builds On Developments In Solar Power | Aviation Week Network". https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/facebooks-uav-flies-builds-developments-solar-power.
- ↑ "Vulture" (in en). https://www.darpa.mil/program/vulture.
- ↑ "Solar Drones Are Filling the Skies, But There's Still No Clear Winner" (in en). 9 May 2019. https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/drones/g27419696/solar-aircraft-drones/?slide=2.
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing SolarEagle.
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