Solar-Storm

Solar Storm is the result of a conceptual design study for a Hybrid-Solar cell powered MAV. And as far as I can search through the internet Solar Storm is the smallest solar MAV (which is autonomous) in the world.(please correct me if I am wrong...)

more coming...

Specifications

• Span: 500 mm
• Weight: 300 g

Performance

Solar-Storm has only 2 test flights yet. First to tune :) and second to measure the endurance.

The numbers we get from the first flight test (by using only 730mAH battery):

• Endurance: 53 minutes
• Average level-flight consumption: 11-12 W
• Average power from Solar cells: ~4-5 W

Note: It was a partially cloudy day, sun was hiding behind the clouds for 20 minutes of the flight.

Solar-Storm will be capable of flying more than 145 minutes at its designed conditions. But not tested yet :)