From:
Sustainable Business Design – June 03, 2008
Solar Impulse, a solar-powered airplane crafted by Swiss researchers, has completed its first manned flights. Pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg each completed 25-hour single-person manned flights earlier this month. The
Solar Impulse uses no fuel and creates no emissions. According to their website, they plan the first night flight in 2009, the first trans-Atlantic flight in 2011, and then the first round-the-world flight.
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Sustainable Business Design: Solar Airplane Completes First Flight
Related:
TheNewsRoom | Solar-powered plane readies for flight.
Solar Impulse: Around the world with a solar airplane, flying day and night without fuel and pollution.
Solar Airplane Completes First Flight
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