Breaking an official Guinness world record is never easy, but Luke Maximo Bell and his dedicated team have done just that . Discover how their ingenious engineering and a legendary flight ...

The father and son team behind the world's fastest quadcopter we featured last year has now built what essentially looks like a flying photovoltaic panel, in a bid to create a drone that's powered by ...

The dream of fully powering everything from aircraft to cars on just the power generated from solar panels attached to the machine remains a tempting one, but always seems to require some serious ...

Bell’s initial solar drone had its panels directly mounted to the frame, with the rotors on the outside. However, resisting wind turned out to be a problem. To enhance performance, he shortened the ...

A Dubai-based engineer this year claimed a world speed record with the Peregreen 3, a drone he has developed alongside his father. Luke Maximo Bell is an engineer based in Dubai who spends his free ...

South African engineer Luke Maximo Bell has redesigned his four-engine solar quadcopter, which can fly without a buffer battery, and subjected it to an endurance test. On a sunny, windless day, the ...

Australian engineer Luke Maximo Bell has built a drone that is powered exclusively by solar energy. To achieve this, however, Bell had to make some optimizations to the drone in terms of weight and ...

Although not a typical focus of people who fly quadcopter drones for a hobby or living, endurance flying has a certain appeal to it for the challenge it offers. Thus, as part of his efforts to collect ...

DIY creators often push boundaries with clever hacks and unusual builds, but every now and then someone attempts something that feels almost impossible. A drone that flies without a battery certainly ...