A Pilot's Guide to an Enormous Continent-Crossing Solar Plane http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Bertrand Piccard is somewhere high over central California right now, flying southward in a giant airplane powered only by the sun. Piccard is the co-founder and pilot of Solar Impulse, a solar powered airplane that left Moffett Field south of San Francisco shortly after 6 a.m. PDT today to begin an eight-week journey across the country. ...



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