News: Solar-powered long-distance flight takes off

Oman Tribune has an article mentioning: "... adventurer soared above sun-splashed Spanish valleys toward Morocco on Tuesday 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 ..."

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