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22 Feb 2013, 10:51 am

As i kid i loved the cartoon "Mysterious Cities of Gold"
There was the "Golden Condor" an aircraft powered by Sun, as i grow up I become wondering does it can become real. I Heard that some company plan to build such aircraft, but it plan to make it unnamed.



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22 Feb 2013, 11:54 am

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/48311607/ns/t ... Seio6Up98E

They have already done it


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22 Feb 2013, 12:19 pm

Yea its pretty old actually.



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22 Feb 2013, 4:16 pm

An electrically powered plane is impractical. The power cord won't reach.

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22 Feb 2013, 8:55 pm

For the golden condor itself, it's not very realistic to expect it to fly on solar power alone. (More so, it's made of GOLD!! !)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvBEPEoX4EI #t=07m53s


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26 Feb 2013, 1:57 pm

Exactly, the plane made ​​of gold, it would be very expensive and very heavy, which would be unable to fly.

In addition, they flew toward the ocean, I wonder what happened with the Golden Condor, when night fell :-)



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20 Mar 2013, 9:54 pm

ruveyn wrote:
An electrically powered plane is impractical. The power cord won't reach.

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There is already one at least I know who fly. It was solar one, made by swiss and who can fly days and nigth. I saw it on TV5 few years ago, if I remember well. That was a very wide air plane. They wanted to demonstrate that can be achieved. If I can find a link I will post it here.


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21 Mar 2013, 5:11 pm

AspianCitizen wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
An electrically powered plane is impractical. The power cord won't reach.

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There is already one at least I know who fly. It was solar one, made by swiss and who can fly days and nigth. I saw it on TV5 few years ago, if I remember well. That was a very wide air plane. They wanted to demonstrate that can be achieved. If I can find a link I will post it here.


What is its payload?

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