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UK to build record breaking solar planes
July 19, 2018

A solar plane which can stay aloft for weeks at a time is to be manufactured by Airbus in the UK.

The unmanned craft flies high in the atmosphere to avoid commercial air traffic and adverse weather.

Airbus hopes to develop the plane as a communications platform.

Its name is Zephyr and its industrial production will be started after several years of testing.

Named for the Zephyr's late inventor, the newly opened Kelleher facility has the capacity to produce up to 30 of the planes each year.