Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Skydweller Launches with Leonardo Investment
With Leonardo 's assistance, Skydweller Aero is developing an unmanned long-endurance solar-powered platform based on the Solar Impulse 2 aircraft.
Between March 2015 and July 2016, the Solar Impulse 2 made a round-the-world journey that was undertaken by pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg in 17 flights, including a flight from Nagoya in Japan to Hawaii that took nearly 118 hours.
Between March 2015 and July 2016, the Solar Impulse 2 made a round-the-world journey that was undertaken by pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg in 17 flights, including a flight from Nagoya in Japan to Hawaii that took nearly 118 hours.

Just prior to the Dubai Airshow Leonardo announced that it was to become a minority partner and the lead technology investor in the Skydweller project, which is taking the Solar Impulse 2 aircraft that circumnavigated the world and developing it into a platform that can be used for communications relay and persistent intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance (ISR) tasks.


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