A manned solar-powered airplane took off in the early hours of Wednesday morning for a 24-hour trip that will include its first nighttime flight. After being postponed last week, the flight began at 6:51 a.m. local time, when the Solar Impulse HB-SIA aircraft took off from the Payerne airbase in Switzerland with Andre Borscherg, CEO and cofounder of the Solar Impulse project, at the controls. “For seven years now, the whole team has been passionately working to achieve this first decisive step of the project,” Borschberg said.
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Solar-Powered Plane Takes Off for Day-and-Night Test Flight
Posted by: Katherine Noyes July 7, 2010 12:00 PMA manned solar-powered airplane took off in the early hours of Wednesday morning for a 24-hour trip that will include its first nighttime flight. After being postponed last week, the flight began at 6:51 a.m. local time, when the Solar Impulse HB-SIA aircraft took off from the Payerne airbase in Switzerland with Andre Borscherg, CEO and cofounder of the Solar Impulse project, at the controls. “For seven years now, the whole team has been passionately working to achieve this first decisive step of the project,” Borschberg said.