FAI celebrates today the 10th anniversary of the start of Solar Impulse’s historic round-the-world flight, the first-ever circumnavigation powered solely by solar energy. On 9 March 2015, the ...

TWO Swiss pilots hope to become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in an aeroplane powered only by the sun. The experimental plane, named the Solar Impulse II, was presented in ...

The goal for Climate Impulse is to take off unassisted, fly some 40,000 kilometers (about 25,000 miles) around Earth along the Equator at a gentle speed of about 200 kilometers per hour (125 mph), and ...

From a workshop on France's Atlantic coast, aviation pioneer Bertand Piccard and partners are feverishly ramping up preparations for a flight that could completely change the course of aviation.

Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg has begun his bid to cross the Pacific, from China to Hawaii, in the zero-fuel Solar Impulse aeroplane. The experimental aircraft, which has a wingspan bigger than a ...

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The solar-powered plane was a technological feat in 2015, but wasn't scalable, said Climate Impulse engineer and co-pilot Raphael Dinelli. Limited in range, that plane had to make more than a ...

The solar-powered plane was a technological feat in 2015, but wasn't scalable, said Climate Impulse engineer and co-pilot Raphael Dinelli. Limited in range, that plane had to make more than a dozen ...