We’ve been closely following the Solar Impulse – the first plane designed to fly night and day without fossil fuels – through its conception to the first real flight. Yesterday, in Payerne, Bertrand Piccard’s Boeing 747-sized, 12,000 solar-cells-studded airplane rose 1,200 meters high into the air and it kept gliding for the next 87 minutes. Well, everything went just perfect to encourage its maker for the proposed take-off in 2012 – a solar-powered around-the-world flight.
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Piccard, the originator of the euro70 million project, said…
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Round-the-world will seem impossible until we do it. Today is an absolutely incredible milestone.
The next is lurking round the corner that will go on to challenge the plane to accomplish a 36-hour flight during the night.
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Via: AP
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