Dryden Model Shop's Tony Frakowiak remotely flies an experimental model aircraft being powered by a spotlight.
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Dryden Model Shop’s Tony Frakowiak remotely flies an experimental model aircraft being powered by a spotlight operated by student intern Derrick Barrett. Researchers from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, and Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville have flight-demonstrated a small-scale aircraft that flies solely by means of propulsive power from an invisible, ground-based infrared laser.August 1, 2002NASA Photo / Tom TschidaPower Beaming Project Description