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Solar Impulse To Make Its Way Across America This May 3rd
05/02/2013, We have read a whole lot about Solar Impulse, the solar powered airplane from Switzerland, in the past, where it certainly had its fair share of adventures across the pond. Well, this coming May 3rd (which is tomorrow, by the [...]
Solar Impulse Plans To Fly Around The World
12/03/2012, Solar Impulse, the famous solar-powered airplane, is getting ready for its next ambitious mission. After proving to the world, against all odds, that the 100 percent solar-powered aircraft can fly during the day and night without fuel for more than [...]
Solar Impulse plane arrives back home
07/24/2012, 4,000 miles later, the odyssey of solar-powered Solar Impulse is finally over as it returned home to where the adventure began – right in neutral Switzerland. This is an epic journey for the record, where it is the first of [...]
Solar Impulse successfully lands in Europe after flight from Morocco
07/06/2012, The Solar Impulse, a plane that runs completely on renewable energy thanks to its solar panels on its wings, has just successfully made the flight from Rabat, Morocco to Madrid, Spain. The flight lasted nearly 17 hours. André Borschberg, CEO [...]
Solar Impulse heads for Ouarzazate in Morocco
06/21/2012, The Solar Impulse continues its fuel-free flight by making its way towards Ouarzazate in Morocco, where it is expected to land after midnight. If you are interested in checking out just how the Solar Impulse is doing, track it live [...]
Solar Impulse continues trip, takes off from Madrid
06/04/2012, Remember the Solar Impulse aircraft? Well, it looks set to take have already off from Madrid in Spain, earlier today as part of its attempt to complete the world’s first fully solar-powered flight over the Strait of Gibraltar, with the [...]
Solar Impulse takes off for first international flight
05/13/2011, We did take a look at the Solar Impulse earlier this month, and it is now official – the solar-powered aircraft has taken to the skies for its maiden international flight from Switzerland to Belgium. The aircraft already holds a [...]
Solar Impulse airplane takes to the international skies
05/02/2011, In an ongoing effort to make the world a greener place, everybody is either going electric, solar or some other form of renewable energy. While we’ve had quite a number of such cars, vehicles such as airplanes are rarely in [...]
Solar Plane Completes Its 24-hour Flight
07/08/2010, It’s a small step forward for the solar plane, dubbed the Solar Impulse, and a rather large step forward for solar aviation. The experimental solar-powered plane has just completed its first 24-hour test flight, confirming that it is capable of [...]
Solar Impulse HB-SIA airplane runs on solar power
03/31/2010, Solar Impulse has started taking its HB-SIA airplane which uses photovoltaic (PV) cells to keep it going for spins to make sure that everything works fine and dandy, fleshing out what used to be theoretical. Part of the “Solar Impulse [...]
