PHASA-35 successfully completes critical endurance trials with sensor payload

Further to initial flight trials, PHASA-35(R), a 35 metre wingspan solar-electric aircraft, has successfully completed critical endurance trials which saw the aircraft operate for 72 hours in a simulated environment that models the harsh stratospheric conditions in which the aircraft is designed to operate. The trials, a collaborative effort by BAE Systems, Prismatic and the [...]