Solar Impulse Commences Ground Tests

Credit: SOLAR IMPULSE
The experimental Solar Impulse prototype could begin taxi tests this month and take to the air this year, although the formal first flight is not planned until early 2010. After several years of development, the solar-powered prototype aircraft (HB-SIA) designed to validate technologies for an...

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