Seniors Nathan Buch, David Hegermiller, and Trevor O’Neill collaborated to create a solar-powered unmanned aircraft in order to demonstrate the feasibility of flight powered by solar energy alone.
In the video above, the plane — which has a wing span of 20 feet — flies the equivalent of about four stories high.
The construction of the plane was underwritten by the Lidow Senior Thesis Fund at Princeton.
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