The Sunriser - A Design study in Solar Powered Flight

2000-01-5507

10/10/2000

Event
World Aviation Congress & Exposition
Authors Abstract
Content
The design task for last year students in Aircraft Design at Linköping University was to design a manned solar powered aircraft. The mission was to survey the U.S./Mexican borderline in search for possible intruders. The Sunriser began as a sole paper project, but quite soon we felt a need to prove that solar powered flight really was feasible. Thus the decision was made to design and build a solar powered demonstrator of our own design.
The demonstrator aircraft, a radio controlled model aircraft named “the Sunrazor”, was designed, built and flown with good result.
This paper deals with the basic theory of sun powered flight and describes the basic thoughts and design considerations which finally led to the configurations chosen.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2000-01-5507
Pages
10
Citation
Berry, P., "The Sunriser - A Design study in Solar Powered Flight," SAE Technical Paper 2000-01-5507, 2000, https://doi.org/10.4271/2000-01-5507.
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Published
Oct 10, 2000
Product Code
2000-01-5507
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English