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Solar Impulse is an European long-range solar-powered plane project being undertaken at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. The project eventually hopes to succeed in the first circling......
The plane weighs 2,300 kg, about the same as a standard family car, wings span 72 m wide, same as a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet. Image: Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard (L) and Andre Boschberg (R) pose......
Over its entire mission, Solar Impulse 2 cruised at altitudes of up to 9,000 metres and at an average speed of between 45 and 90 km per hour. A solar-powered aircraft successfully completed the......
History is being created inside a hangar in Dubendorf Air Basein Switzerland that will radically change the way an aircraft flies. The prototype of an aircraft, to be propelled entirely by solar......
Image: Solar Impulse 2, the world's first airplane flying on solar energy, lands in Ahmedabad on March 10, 2015. Photograph: Jean Revillard/ Reuters Solar Impulse 2, claimed to be the......