From the outside, it looked as if the Swiss-led Solar Impulse project smoothly soldiered through adversity as its solar-powered plane made a record-setting trip around the world in 2015 and ...

Flying around the world fueled only by sunshine, the Solar Impulse is now two-thirds of the way through the first-ever attempt to fly around the world in a solar-powered aircraft. The plane is ...

The Solar Impulse 2, a solar-powered aircraft, etched a milestone in green aviation in 2016, by successfully voyaging around the world. Bertrand Piccard, co-founder and pilot of Solar Impulse 2 ...

Swiss start-up SolarXplorers is currently developing the ... the aircraft is powered by a three-bladed propeller and a 2×19 kW double electric motor which is entirely powered by solar energy.

Next year, pilots will fly an aircraft around the world that is powered by four electric motors and 11,000 solar cells on its wings. “E-mobility,” said Ohlmann, “starts now.” ...

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a solar-powered plane, attempting to fly around the world on nothing but energy from the sun. There's a saying that knowledge is power. But like power, knowledge has to be directed or the result ...

An experimental solar-powered airplane embarked on its first transcontinental ... as the final dress rehearsal before a round-the-world flight that will include stops in the United States using ...

Starting in 2015, the solar-powered aircraft spent 16 months flying around the world, except it flew at an average speed of 28 to 34 mph. Solar Impulse 2 is part of a movement in recent years to ...

Although not the first to try and build a DIY solar-powered remote control airplane, [ProjectAir]’s recent attempt is the most significant one in recent memory. It follows [rctestflight]’s ...

solar power management and the challenges of testing in the real world, among others. Solar Plane V1 had a 9.5 ft / 2.9 m carbon fibre skeleton wing, covered with transparent film, with the ...