Posted on June 17th, 2009 by Jean Louis Frechin

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Just over 100 years after the first flight of man in aircraft, the premeir solar aircraft

solar impulse 1 Buck Danny et lavion solaire

Aeronaut Bertrand Piccard's famous around the world activists, scion of a family of famous scientist and adventurer, Andre Borschberg, an engineer and a pilot and the prestigious EPFL Lausanne Polytechnic launches the first aircraft powered with solar energy. The plane can fly 36 hours and then at night, will sail around the world. The first flight will take place at the end of 2009.

The project site SolarImpulse or movies you will see the construction of this fantastic machine that lays the foundations of the flight without oil /

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2 Responses to "Buck Danny and the solar plane"


  1. bertrand

    11 months ago

    super!


  2. Culturemobile

    9 months ago

    Great! Here is an overview of other mobile technologies using solar energy http://www.culturemobile.net/innova .. .

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