It was in the air, powered only by the sun, for 336 hours, 24 minutes, more than 10x the previous record for an un-refueled UAV.
Jon Saltmarsh, project lead on the "eternal plane" announced that it was ready to begin its operational life:
We have proved the concept; we have proved we can provide persistence; we have proved we can put useful payloads on to it that will actually do things the [Ministry of Defense] has a requirement to do.
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