Monday, April 12, 2010

News: Flying the Sunny Skies: Solar-Powered Plane Completes 2-Hour Test Flight

Discover Magazine has an article mentioning: "... adventurer and around-the-world ballooning enthusiast Bertrand Piccard, he and his team were celebrating their first test flight of their solar-powered plane in December. However, those tests were really just ?flea hop? tests to get the plane a couple feet off the ground. This time, though, Solar Impulse ..."

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