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 ===== Solar flight =====
+The time airborne and with that the operation radius is limited by the battery life.
+Provided the case that the sun is shining above the mediterranean sea, solar cells on the wing surface are capable to increase this radius.
+At ETH Zurich they even built a autonomous rc-plane that can fly through the entire night with the solar energy collected the day before. Thought further, it may even be possible to develop a drone which can be launched even from mainland and only needs to return for data transfers and maintenance.
+For nearer future the first step is to only increase the range with solar energy.
+Holger Lambertus describes in a blog-entry the manufacturing-process of a wing with inbuilt Solar-Panels.
+He builds them with a core of foamed material on which the Solar cells along with a top layer of glass are laminated.
+To get this solar project viable it is necessary to increase the wing-surface.
+Designing a custom-wing is disappointingly difficult.
 Author: Nepomuk