The Boeing UAV was the winning bid in a DARPA contest named Vulture II. It's another one of those peculiar projects with high ambitions designed to encourage the next level of technological development. With a goal of flying at stratospheric height for five years, Boeing's SolarEagle only has to achieve a demonstration flight of 30-to-90 days by 2014.
A product of the same Phantom Works lab behind the hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye, this slimmer eye-in-the-sky's actually propeller-driven and uses electric motors set into a "high-aspect-ratio" 400-foot wing designed to capture the sun's rays while providing little drag from the earth's atmosphere. With a 1,000-pound payload it won't be dropping bombs anytime soon, just helping the people who drop the bombs figure out where to put them.
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That's a big sucker.
Really awesome invention. :D
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Of course it's gotta be militarized first.
wow thats awesome
Doesn't look like it can carry much. >_< Especially for spying. What's the megapixel on that camera?
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Interesting!
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i betting money it doesnt go the whole five years, cool breakthrough tho
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lol 65000 feet, how much is that for us metric folks?
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Damn, five years? The 90 days test flight seems pretty insane to me, but five years?!!
but it doesnt look cool. aint no GI JOE
That's mindblowing...5 years at 65k feet? I wonder if it'll actually make it the entire time.
Thanks for the info, and if you remember over the next few weeks, keep us posted on whether or not the 90 day run went successfully.
good to hear
Wow? Flying for five years? I'll be surprised if it can go the whole time.
Awesome!!!
Now if passenger planes were like this
thats crazy, be cool on call of duty :)
All I can think of is the inevitable, epic crash, and how much fun it would be to watch on YouTube. ^_^
that's one weird looking plane!
That's impressive. Though I wouldn't be surprised it was shot down or had technical problems. A lot can go wrong in 5 years and I doubt they can go up to fix it.
woah that thing is amazing
I want to have one of those :P
Wait... no, that actually wouldn't have much use for me...
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wow! awsm plane!
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wow, 5 years without a break is a pretty long time.
That's crazy!
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Wow 5 years!
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weird plain, I dont like this spy stuff :D who know what they got :D
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now thats a spy plane
thats a really nice invention, can't be long till we have a floating city then! hahahha
haha i remember something similar, a plane with solarcollectors. never was developed to the end though :D
Damn that's sweet...
What will they think of next??
wow.
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Really interesting post! Keep it up.
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