Friday, June 15, 2012

Solar Power - Solar-Powered Flight




Naked Science: channel.nationalgeographic.com It started as a crazy dream: could a jetliner really fly using only solar energy? Go inside the nearly 10-year journey of the engineers who created Solar Impulse HB-SIA.



In the News:




Ceylon Daily News

Solar plane team awaits date for new Moroccan flight
Phys.Org
The team behind the Solar Impulse, the solar-powered aircraft that was forced to turn back during a desert flight in Morocco, said Thursday they were working on ...
Solar-powered flightCeylon Daily News
Headwinds force solar plane to abort Morocco flightBangkok Post
Solar-powered plane flies Moroccan desertTimes LIVE
News24
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USA TODAY

Solar-powered plane lands in Morocco
BusinessWeek
An experimental solar-powered plane landed in Morocco's capital late Tuesday after a 20-hour trip from Madrid in the first transcontinental journey by a craft of ...
Solar-powered plane makes transcontinental night flightUSA TODAY
Swiss pilot takes off on first solar-powered flightKhaleej Times
Solar-powered plane lands in Morocco on first transcontinental flight ...Washington Post
Voice of America (blog) -Calgary Herald
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Solar-powered plane to fly to Moroccan desert
AFP
(AFP) – 21 minutes ago. RABAT — The Swiss sun-powered plane Solar Impulse is preparing to take off Wednesday from Rabat to southern Morocco's desert ...




Solar Powered Flight: Make It So
IT Business Net
The world's first solar transcontinental flight landed early this week. Swiss aviator Bertrand Piccard flew the one manned aircraft from Spain to Morocco in 20 ...




Voice of America

Solar-Powered Plane's Trip Boosts Solar Energy Cause
Voice of America
850 km-trip from Madrid, Spain to Rabat, Morocco marks world's first intercontinental flight by manned aircraft operating without liquid fuel.
Morocco promotes solar energy with plane landingAlbany Times Union

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