WASHINGTON: The United States has experimented a drone with a record 80 hours flight, the International Aeronautical Federation said.
The feat actually took place in December over California, when four pilots took turns flying the craft designed to carry a payload of cameras, weapons or other equipment of more than one ton.
The previous UAV flight record was of 30 hours, belonging to the Global Hawk by Northrop Grumman.
The drone was built as part of an experimental US Air Force program to meet the round-the-clock needs of American intelligence and surveillance.
The overall record for flight duration by a UAV belongs to a small solar powered craft built by Airbus that carried out a 14-day flight in 2010.
