The Icare designer Proffessor Voit Nitschmann agreed to the long term loan of the Icare molds for Solar Flight’s new airplane.

You can learn more about Icare at http://www.ifb.uni-stuttgart.de/index.php/forschung/flugzeugentwurf/icare

Also invoved in the planning and logistics were Len Schumann, Karl Kasser, and Micro Schulz, all Stuttgart alumni.

These molds will allow very high qulality wings to be molded at the lightest possible weight.  The molds are being readied for the 10 meter inner wing section, to be built in our new shop in Radovljica, Slovenia.

Only small changes will be needed to the SUNSEEKER III design, to take advantage of this opportunity.

Micro Schulz test flying Icare in 1996

As you can see from the picture, Icare has a beautiful 25 meter wing.  The Stuttgarter’s hope to have Icare flying next summer, and to stage a distance contest between SUNSEEKER II and Icare, probably in Germany.  Sponsors for this event are being sought.

 Proffesor Nitschmann’s design firm www.sfl-gmbh.de is very freindly to our project, and we hope to work togeather in the future on solar powered aircraft.