Saturday, June 9, 2012

News: Pilot embarks on first solar-powered intercontinental flight

Kuwait Times has an article mentioning: "... A Swiss adventurer soared above sun-splashed Spanish valleys toward Morocco yesterday on the world?s first intercontinental flight in a solar-powered plane. Bertrand Piccard, a 54-year-old psychiatrist and balloonist, took off into the night skies above Madrid in the Solar Impulse plane, a giant as big as ..."

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