The father and son team behind the world's fastest quadcopter we featured last year has now built what essentially looks like a flying photovoltaic panel, in a bid to create a drone that's powered by ...

The dream of fully powering everything from aircraft to cars on just the power generated from solar panels attached to the machine remains a tempting one, but always seems to require some serious ...

South African engineer Luke Maximo Bell has redesigned his four-engine solar quadcopter, which can fly without a buffer battery, and subjected it to an endurance test. On a sunny, windless day, the ...

Bell’s initial solar drone had its panels directly mounted to the frame, with the rotors on the outside. However, resisting wind turned out to be a problem. To enhance performance, he shortened the ...

A Dubai-based engineer this year claimed a world speed record with the Peregreen 3, a drone he has developed alongside his father. Luke Maximo Bell is an engineer based in Dubai who spends his free ...

Australian engineer Luke Maximo Bell has built a drone that is powered exclusively by solar energy. To achieve this, however, Bell had to make some optimizations to the drone in terms of weight and ...

Although not a typical focus of people who fly quadcopter drones for a hobby or living, endurance flying has a certain appeal to it for the challenge it offers. Thus, as part of his efforts to collect ...