The Bell solar powered helicopter
 

Does anyone have any technical information on Bell's new solar powered helicopter. Nick Lappos - you appear to be the world's leading expert on everything technical, what do you think?

Is it anything like the solar-powered Chinook...? :E

I understood in Turkey there are already 42 / 32 / 22 superb green helicopters which have flown into the sun?

Cheers SLB

Palma,
As the reigning expert on very little lately (finding my car keys is an achievement!) I can't pick up that mantle, but I can profess no knowledge of a Bell solar helo. In model scale, one has a chance, but the power demands our rotor makes are a real issue for solar storage or energy production.
I'd be really intrigued with any practical solar helicopter solution, frankly.

The crews are all OK, they flew there at night. :8

Don't know about Bell, but the UMD Gamera team responsible for flying the world's first human-powered helicopter in 2011 is now also claiming to have achieved the first flight of a manned solar-powered helicopter:

University of Maryland achieves first flight of a solar-powered, piloted helicopter

I/C