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Solar plane makes 62-hour non-stop flight without refueling

2016-04-24 19:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BS Comment: The flight team, which had prepared the plane in Hawaii, flew ahead to the landing stage in Silicon Valley to prepare the mobile hangar to shelter the plane. A solar-powered airplane on a journey around the world was preparing to land in California on Saturday night to complete a risky, three-day flight across the Pacific Ocean. Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard, an explorer, and Andre Borschberg, an engineer, have taken turns handling the plane ever since it embarked upon a journey around the...

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