By AFP, Seeker.com October 10, 2016
An unmanned version of their plane could deliver Wi-Fi signals to remote areas or collect rare agricultural data.
Circling the globe in an aircraft that used no fuel would be enough for some to rest on their laurels, but the pilots of Solar Impulse 2 on Monday spoke of their new project.
“An unmanned version of Solar Impulse,” aviator and engineer Andre Borschberg told reporters when asked what groundbreaking mission the Swiss-based team was tackling next.
