zephyr Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:20:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Zephyr Solar Powered Airplane: Aloft For Two Weeks, Landing on Friday https://www.greenoptimistic.com/zephyr-solar-powered-airplane-20100720/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/zephyr-solar-powered-airplane-20100720/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:20:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=8556 Prototypes are always good if they can prove the weakest link between theory and practice. Then, the heavy industry can have the cake and make it ten times bigger, but the start and beauty of things is in the trial-and-error phase. Such is the case of Zephyr, a solar powered aircraft that took off more than seven days ago and is still aloft.

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