SOLAR IMPLUSE

SOLAR POWERED AIRCRAFT EMBARKS ACROSS THE USA
NEWS: piloted by bertrand   piccard , the first leg of the 2013 across america
mission was concluded successfully in the the ‘solar impulse hb  sia’   solar
powered aircraft on Saturday may 4th. kicking off the ‘clean generation’
initiative, the airplane safely landed from san francisco to phoenix,   as it will
cross the continental united states in five stopovers with hopes of rais ing
awareness about the potential of clean technologies, the final leg of the
mission – connecting Washington d.c. to new york – will be piloted by the
project’s co-founder andre   borschberg.
on june 6th 2012, the ‘solar impulse’ al ready became the first solar
powered   airplane to complete an intercontinental flight when it flew on first
leg of the longer mission from madrid , Spain to rabat, morocco, landing
between stops, each leg of the plane’s record-breaking journey consists
o fapproximately 800 kilometers (500 miles), achieved with an average
flying speed of 70km/hr.