| Solar-Powered Plane Completes Test Flight Associated Press | |
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Solar Plane Completes Round the Clock Flight (USABreaking)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — A solar-powered plane that has wowed aviation fans in Europe took to the skies Friday over the San Francisco Bay area in a successful test flight.
Considered the world’s most advanced solar-powered plane, the Solar Impulse took off from Moffett Field in Mountain View at first light for a two-hour practice run in advance of a planned multi-city, cross-country tour.
“That’s a mythical step in aviation,” André Borschberg, one of the plane’s pilots and creators, said about flying cross-country. “We are something like between 1915 and 1920, compared to traditional aviation, when pioneers tried these non-stop flights.”
He said a flight around the world could occur in two years.
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