
Video: Solar Impulse First Flight
Following up on the news of the first flight of the Solar Impulse , we now have video of the short hop down the runway in Switzerland. Bertrand Piccard, the man behind the Solar Impulse program said on the team’s website that the flight might not look like much, but he believes it is an entry into a totally new and unchartered domain of flight. “Never before – in the whole history of aviation – has an aircraft so big, so light and consuming so little energy actually flown.” Piccard, who is an accomplished aviator and along with co-pilot Brian Jones, was the first to make an around the world balloon flight, reaffirmed plans for high altitude flights in the spring from the team’s new home in Payerne in western Switzerland. After initial…










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Man travels across 37 countries on $2
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What may happen in the next 100 years - from the year 1900
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