Tag Archives : Solar Impulse

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 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 already had its share of solar driven cars and gadgets. It has been long waiting for a big leap, something awe-inspiring that will reinstate the people’s hope in non-conventional sources of energy. The Swiss company Solar impulse had embarked on a mission to fuel their aircraft with solar energy and successfully fly around in the night [...]

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, [...]

It takes a brave man to conjure up and create a plane that flies across the globe only on solar power and it takes a set of bolder pilots to actually be willing to take this adventures wing span into upper altitude. Unveiled in Switzerland, Solar Impulse has set its aim on becoming the very first completely solar-powered flight to make a trip around [...]

Solar energy is the leader among ‘green energy sources’ without a shadow of a doubt and with its conquests still not completely done on land, it already is soaring towards the clouds with glee. The world’s first completely solar-powered flight will attempt to complete a journey across the world come May of 2011 and if that proves to be a successful [...]