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The race to save the environment with solar powered and zero emission vehicles, has now take to the skies with the successful 24 hour maiden flight of the experimental HB-SIA solar powered plane. This incredible feat not only put the airplane in the history books, but has also substantiated the facts, that such an airborne platform could indeed collect [...]

The world has seen solar cars, solar powered parking lots, even miniaturized solar powered pieces of art. Now, the we will soon witness the maiden flight of the world’s first solar powered airplane, if all goes well for Bertrand Piccard, the Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist, who has been dedicated his time and efforts in the design and development [...]

The round the globe balloon-traveler duo Swiss scientist-adventurer and pilot Bertrand Piccard and Briton Brian Jones are planning another pace-setting joy ride, but this time it would be the newly divulged HB-SIA aka ‘Solar Impulse’, an airplane powered by the sun. A decade after their first non-stop flight around the world in a hot air balloon, [...]