High-altitude, long-endurance aircraft have long been a topic of interest for the U.S. Air Force and for the RAND Corporation. In 2007, RAND undertook a study to determine whether there was any practical merit to the admittedly speculative concept of transmitting power to such an aircraft by photovoltaic conversion of a laser beam, thus recharging the aircraft in midair and potentially keeping it aloft indefinitely.
Feasibility of Laser Power Transmission to a High-Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
2011
69 pages
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