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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Solar Impulse 2, the revolutionary solar-powered plane, has resumed its round-the-world journey that started in Abu Dhabi in March 2015. The plane's first flight of 2016 is being attempted by the ...

The one-of-a-kind, upgraded Block 20 Phasa-35 solar-powered aircraft ... "we can launch the aircraft and then steer it to anywhere we would want in the world within a number of days," Davidson ...