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Overnight first solar plane flight takes off from Switzerland
Posted by admin on July 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment
An experimental solar-powered plane took off from western Switzerland on Wednesday for a 24-hour test flight–a key step in a historic effort to one day circle the globe using only energy collected from the sun.
The plane has 12,000 solar cells on its 80-metre wingspan and looks like something out of a science-fiction movie.
Clear blue skies [...]
