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Equipped with an experimental fuel cell system to power the aircraft at night, the solar-electric Helios Prototype is shown during a checkout flight prior to its long-endurance flight demonstration June 7, 2003

 

 

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NASA's Helios Prototype electrically powered flying wing began a checkout flight June 7 from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. June 7, 2003

 

 

 

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The solar-electric Helios Prototype flying wing bisects the volcanic atoll of Lehua off the coast of Kaua'i, Hawaii, during a checkout flight on June 7, 2003. Helios is now equipped with an experimental fuel cell system to allow nighttime flight.

 

 

 

NASA's Helios Prototype aircraft taking off from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, for the record flight August 13, 2001

 

 

The Helios Prototype aircraft during initial climb-out to the west over the Pacific Ocean. August 13, 2001