Solar Impulse Takes Off For First Time
The Solar Impulse aircraft has been in development, design, manufacturing and testing for nearly 6 years now. The project is an airplane that can take off, fly and land autonomously, day and night and all while using only solar energy. This is possible of course by using the energy gathered throughout the day to power it through the night, all while using no fuel and creating no pollution.
Just this past week they were able to launch it on its inaugural test flight and successfully flew it for 2 hours. The group behind the project hope to one day be able to circle the globe and see this as a huge first step. There will be a couple more tests flights in the near future.
With the success of the inaugural flight, we can now envision 2 more test flights in order to determine with precision the performance of the airplane. This will assist us in the preparations of a second airplane in which we plan to do an around the world flight.
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