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NASA talk focuses on unlimited flight time

Posted to: Hampton News

HAMPTON

Aerospace engineer Craig Nickol of NASA Langley Research Center will talk about aircraft designed for virtually unlimited flight during a free talk at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Virginia Air & Space Center.

He will discuss the development of solar-powered aircraft such as the High Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, which is aiming for multiyear flight without landing, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Vulture.

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