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Pioneering solar-powered plane makes airborne hop
Zurich :: Switzerland | about 11 hours ago
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The high tech single-seater with the wingspan of an Airbus A340 airliner (63.40 metres) made a controlled 400 metre (yard) flight about one metre above the runway at Duebendorf air base near the Swiss city of Zurich, said co-founders Bertrand Piccard...
Tags: Solar Impulse, Switzerland, Zurich, Environment, Aviation history, Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse Project, Solar energy, Piccard, Balloon, Airbus A340, Alternative propulsion, Aircraft, Jean Piccard, Electric aircraft, Jet aircraft
Solar plane pioneer says first short flight OK
Geneva :: WA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility K A Swiss adventurer said his first flight using a prototype of a solar-powered plane he will try to fly around the world in was successful. A Swiss adventurer said his first flight using a prototype of a solar-powered plane he will try to fly around...
Tags: Geneva, Environment, Piccard, Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse Project, Electric aircraft, Solar energy, Brian Jones, Balloon, Aviation history, Technology Internet, Alternative propulsion, Aircraft, Steve Fossett
A family piles up the records
Basel :: Switzerland | 10 days ago
Credibility But their record-setting projects have all served the purpose of research, and the current representative, Bertrand, is no exception. He is now working on the Solar Impulse aircraft with which he plans to make the first ever solar-powered round-the-world...
Tags: Jacques Piccard, Bertrand Piccard, Jules Piccard, Auguste Piccard, Gulf Stream, Switzerland, Basel, Piccard, Bathyscaphe Trieste, Ben Franklin, Bathyscaphe, Swiss people
Around the World in 25 DAYS Non-Stop - in a SOLAR Powered Plane
The man who in 1999 had circled the globe non-stop in a balloon is now eyeing to set the record of flying around the world in a solar-powered airplane. Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard unveiled in Zurich-Duebendorf a prototype of his...
Tags: Around the World, 25 DAYS, SOLAR Powered Plane, balloon, Bertrand Piccard, United Arab Emirates, China, Hawaii, Southern US, Southern Europe, Zurich-Duebendorf, prototype, HBSIA, HBSIB, Lithium batteries, Solar Impulse, pressurised capsule, avionics, myVox
The Record, New Jersey: Solar-powered plane something new under the sun
Newark :: NJ :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Switzerland â It has the wingspan of a Boeing 747 but weighs less than a small car...Adventurer Bertrand Piccard unveiled the Solar Impulse, which with its sleek white wings and pink trimming aims to make history as the prototype for a solar-powered...
Tags: Bertrand Piccard
Swiss explorer unveils solar powered plane
Zurich :: Switzerland | 5 months ago
Credibility The HB-SIA – the aeroplane’s registration – has the wingspan of a Boeing 747-400 but room for only one passenger in its tiny cockpit.
Tags: Bertrand Piccard, Betrand Piccard, near zurich, Zurich, powered plane, airfield near, solar powered, Solar Impulse, solar plane
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