Homemade solar drone smashes endurance record with 5+ hours aloft (Omar Kardoudi, April 05, 2026, New Atlas)
Luke Bell and his father Mike have done it again. Their new solar-powered drone – running on sunlight and almost nothing else – just claimed an unofficial endurance record for electric multirotors, flying for 5 hours, 2 minutes, and 21 seconds before Luke simply got tired and landed it.