Tag Archives : HB-SIA

Today marks a day of celebration and jubilation for the one striving to become the vanguard to a revolution of epic proportions in the form of the fusion of renewable energy in our day to day lives. The immensely famous solar powered airplane from Solar Impulse had today successfully completed its maiden international flight by touching down at Brussels [...]

The much talked about and highly anticipated solar powered airplane from Solar Impulse is now gearing up for its maiden international flight from Brussels, before this aircraft is finally rolled out for its ambitious flight across the globe scheduled in the year 2012. The setting for the international flight comes just a short time after this one [...]

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, [...]