Whitechapel - Bertrand Piccard's Solar Impulse aircraft makes inaugural flight 2013-06-19T19:46:15-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher Bertrand Piccard's Solar Impulse aircraft makes inaugural flight http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7369&Focus=206983#Comment_206983 2009-12-03T19:35:57-08:00 2009-12-03T19:36:16-08:00 barryhall http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3080 Hopes that aircraft could one day be kept in the air by solar energy were boosted yesterday when a giant sun-powered plane left the ground in Switzerland on a brief maiden flight. The Solar ...
The Solar Impulse, which is designed to soar across oceans using four solar-driven electric propellers, flew 350m (1,150ft) about a metre above the runway at a military aerodrome near Zurich with a German test pilot at the controls.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6943308.ece

Brings to mind the crystal aeroplanes in Ballard's Hello America, I thought.]]>