With a laser beam centered on its solar panel, a lightweight model aircraft is checked out by technician Tony Frakowiak and researcher Tim Blackwell before its power-beamed demonstration flight.
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With a laser beam centered on its solar panel, a lightweight model aircraft is checked out by technician Tony Frakowiak and researcher Tim Blackwell before its power-beamed demonstration flight. 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.September 17, 2003NASA Photo / Tom Tschida› Power Beaming Project Description