"I can tell you that it was one of the most beautiful flights of my life. I have been dreaming for 10 years of travelling from one continent to another without a drop of fuel."
Above are the words of Bertrand Piccard, the Swiss pilot who completed a 19-hour flight from Spain to Morocco yesterday in a solar energy-powered airplane. This experimental 1,554 mile journey from Europe to Africa was made possible by 12,000 solar cells integrated unto the plane which powered the engines and charged all batteries on-board!
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