Yingli UAV

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| type=Solar-powered UAV
| national origin= [[China]]
| manufacturer= Yingli
| designer= Yingli
| first flight=2011
| introduced=2011
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| status= In service
| primary user= [[China]]
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[[Yingli]] UAV is a Chinese [[UAV]] developed by [[Yingli]] and it is an [[experimental aircraft|experimental UAV]] developed to test the feasibility of solar power as propulsion for UAV.

==Solar-powered UAV==
[[Solar-powered aircraft|solar-powered UAV]] is a fixed-wing UAV developed by Yingli to study the feasibility of utilizing solar power to propel UAV. The solar-powered UAV is a light weight fixed-wing UAV in [[twin-boom]] layout and tricycle landing gear. Propulsion is provided by a two-blade driven [[pusher configuration|pusher engine]] mounted at the rearend of the fuselage. The engine is electrically powered and the power source comes from the solar panels mounted on the upper surface of the wing. The fuselage of the UAV has a rectangular cross section, where the area on the top and sides of the exterior skin of the fuselage are used to mount additional solar panels.<ref name="UAV">{{cite web| url=http://www.cqn.com.cn/news/zgzlb/dier/415603.html | title=Yingli solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle | accessdate= May 24, 2011}}</ref> Specification:<ref name="UAV">{{cite web| url=http://www.jlck.cn/html/2011-5/33492.html | title=Yingli solar powered UAV | accessdate= May 24, 2011}}</ref>
*Speed (km/hr): 120
*Operating radius (km): 160
*Endurance (hr): 3
*Payload: Digital thermal imager

==See also==
[[List of unmanned aerial vehicles of the People's Republic of China]]

==References==
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[[Category:Unmanned aerial vehicles]]
[[Category:Unmanned aerial vehicles of China]]

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