Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 11:36am
Bertrand Piccard navigates the Solar Impulse around San Francisco.
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Friday, May 13, 2011 - 11:36am
We've been following the sun-powered Solar Impulse plane for a very long time. Since 2008, we've seen it complete its test run, conquer a 26-hour day and night flight, and now it's successfully complete a flight from Switzerland to Belgium.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 10:25am
A solar-powered plane with a 200-foot wingspan completed its first test flight this morning, soaring to 5,500 feet in an 87-minute sortie that reached a top speed of 44 mph. Solar Impulse proved itself airworthy, taking off and landing under...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 12:31pm
Aeronaut Bertrand "Jean Luc" Piccard (nickname ours) has already been around the world once. The first time he did it in a hot air balloon, called the Breitling Orbiter 3. Now he wants to do it again with the Solar...
