"If you don't have enough power, the plane falls out of
the air. There's no question to how it's performing."
Source: Nick Schoeps, fuel cell engineer at
Adaptive Materials and a University of Michigan alumnus. In late
October, the University of Michigan undergrads flew Endurance,
their 12-pound radio-controlled UAV with its 8-foot wingspan, for
10-hours and 16 minutes, at an average speed of about 99 miles per
hour. The flight was conducted in a field in Milan, MI, about 20
miles south of Ann Arbor.