Friday, May 25, 2012

Solar plane ends very first leg of intercontinental bid

The Swiss sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse landed safely in Madrid early Friday at the end of the 1st leg of its try at an intercontinental flight without having employing a drop of fuel.
Pilot Andre Borschberg successfully had launched the plane from an airfield in Payerne in western Switzerland at about 8:30am (0630 GMT) Thursday, bound for Rabat by way of Madrid, after a two-hour delay due to foggy situations.
If effective the 2,500-kilometre (1,550-mile) journey will be the longest to

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