If anyone has looked into long range UAV solutions they have most likely came across the two most prominent problems.
1. The physical range you can fly the aircraft with a remote control
2. The physical range the aircraft can endure. For example: With Nitro, Gas, or Electric.
At the current point I have looked into solar panels... I figured out that they are possible for rc flight but are not highly practical. Solar powered rc aircraft would be limited to daytime, of course, and would not provide substantial power for the current electric sucking motors.
I have looked into and discovered a new electric motor technology that is actually quite simple and much more efficient than the current leading electric motors. It is confidential to me so I'm not going into extreme details but what I will say is that it is probably as close to free energy as you can get without it being free energy. The highly efficient electric motor couples permanent magnets with one or two pulsing electromagnets in a series of spirals. The PMEMM's (as I call them Permanent Magnet and Electro-Magnet Motors) could provide much more power with the same amount of energy, for say from a solar panel.
With both greatly unventured factors, one being the control range factor and the other being the flight endurance factor, I plan on executing a 2,600 mile round trip flight with a small homemade Adam A-500 style foamboard plane at low altitude over the west U.S. this July.
Thoughts anyone?