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Boeing and NASA team up for SolarEagle nonstop plane
$89M DARPA contract to develop the solar-powered plane Craig Nickol’s job, helping to build a plane that will fly nonstop for five years, is often met with skepticism. “The standard reaction people have when they see this is, Are you joking?” said Nickol, an engineer at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton. While it may sound like a science fiction movie, Boeing Co. and NASA are developing a prototype of the plane under an $89 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects… (www.dailypress.com) Daha Fazlası...
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Cool.....now design a version that can haul passenger but wait if it can fly for five yrs straight that would eliminate the need to land...downside is once the initial passengers have jumped off how would they reload it.....stop wasting money and design more engines that are more efficient
The Country is going down the financial drain and we are doing what?
Thats a wait and see..
That true the usa is going down.
Keep on spending like a drunken sailor, it is only money
