FollowGrandson of flying legend Charles Lindbergh, Erik Lindbergh, has given PC-Aero and SolarWorld the Lindbergh Prize for Electric Aircraft Vision Award. Germany’s PC-Aero is the developer of Elektra One a complete electric aircraft system that’s also solar power enabled.
The crystalline solar technology manufactured by German based SolarWorld was used by PC-Aero to make Elektra One solar enabled. PC-Aero also created a solar powered hanger with pv panels on the rooftop to not only charge up the aircraft but also power the hanger itself. The excess energy will be fed back to the power grid.
This is the seventh award from the (LEAP) the Lindbergh Electric Aircraft Prize and was given out to representatives from SolarWorld and PC-Aero at the World Electric Aircraft Symposium in Oshkosh Wisconsin on July 29th 2011.
“This is an electrifying time,” Erik Lindbergh said in the release. “Visionaries are taking risks. The field is alive with novel approaches and rich in activity and experimentation. With continued intellectual and financial investments, great opportunity exists for technological advancements that could apply well beyond electric aircraft.”
Source: solarpowerbuzzmedia
