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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]