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Elektra Solar

  • The Elektra Solar Two OPS demonstrator's autopilot system managed to take-off, fly and land the aircraft all on its own
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    Elektra Two Solar aces autonomous flight test
    ​Germany's Elektra Solar has announced that its Elektra Two Solar OPS high altitude, long endurance aircraft has successfully taken off, flown around a bit and landed all by itself, in a demonstration of a new autopilot system.​
  • The Elektra One Solar flew autonomously on a predetermined path over Landshut while carrying a complex payload of sensors, cameras and high speed data links which transmitted the data to a ground station.
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    Elektra One Solar demonstrates 3D town mapping capabilities
    Elektra Solar demonstrated the capabilities of the company's Elektra One Solar​ aircraft earlier this month by mapping an historic German town in 3D. The low cost, low noise electric-solar aircraft was able to circulate silently just 300 meters over the town while it scanning the landscape below.