Build your own very cheap RC solar powered airplane

; Date: August 15, 2018

For the princely sum of $60 you can build a very inexpensive solar powered RC airplane. The construction uses what looks like styrofoam for the wings, some solar cells (not whole panels) hot-glued to the wing surface, a pair of low power motors to fly the plane, and so on. Hot glue is used all over the place as an inexpensive way to hold things together.

DIY: Make a Solar RC Plane under $60

This video is about making a simple Solar RC plane under $60.

David Herron

David Herron is a writer and software engineer focusing on the wise use of technology. He is especially interested in clean energy technologies like solar power, wind power, and electric cars. David worked for nearly 30 years in Silicon Valley on software ranging from electronic mail systems, to video streaming, to the Java programming language, and has published several books on Node.js programming and electric vehicles.