European plane maker Airbus has broken a record for the longest time a drone has flown, flight tracking data shows. Airbus's solar-powered Zephyr S has been flying nonstop for 26 days, breaking a record set in 2018. Flying cars are born, and the world will change China's space plane plan: "Fly to anywhere on earth within an hour" Future World: Is Air Taxi a Dream or a Reality? The drone flew very high in the atmosphere, avoiding commercial routes and severe weather conditions. Batteries on the plane keep it flying at night, meaning the plane doesn't have to land to refuel.
Flight data showed the plane took off from a test site in Arizona and flew to Belize in Central America, where it flew back again. Airbus told the BBC it had no comment on the flight. A spokesman for the U.S. Army Futures Command's Positioning, Navigation and Timing Division told The Drive that the recent flight test "was designed to test the UAV's energy storage capabilities, battery life, solar panel efficiency. , and the ability to be controlled by a ground station." Tim Robinson, editor-in-chief of Aviation Magazine, told the BBC that he saw the distance as a major milestone for the plane to fly beyond the pilot's line of sight. "They've been doing flight tests at such long distances since 2018, and that was a record at the time," he said. "The plane sent the signal here, beyond line-of-sight communication, and flew somewhere else." "I think it's important to show how we can actually use it in real life." This opens up new avenues for practical use of the aircraft, such as military use or emergency disaster relief, he said.compared to satellite Aircraft can provide imagery similar to satellite imagery, but are not limited by orbiting the Earth, which means the aircraft can stay in one position, constantly updating the picture of the ground. It has another key advantage over satellites,
which cannot return to Earth after launch. "The plane can go back, the sensors on the plane can be upgraded, the equipment on the plane can be replaced, it can be upgraded with new technology," Robinson said. The flight record was set by Airbus' latest solar-powered aircraft model, which was originally designed and built in the UK. The inventor of the Breeze drone was Chris Kelleher, who died in 2015. Three years later, Airbus opened its first production facility in the UK to The flight controller appears to have deliberately celebrated the plane's 27th consecutive flight day with its "origin". The aircraft controller used the track to spell out the word "UK" (United Kingdom) in the sky, and also used the track to draw a simple outline of Stonehenge.
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