Solar Powered Aircraft takes off, just a Little.
By Alton K. Marsh, from AOPA NEWS
http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2009/091203solar.html?WT.mc_id=&wtmcid;&WT.mc_sect=gan
Solar Impulse, an aircraft developed in Switzerland to eventually fly on solar power both day and night, made its first test hop on battery power alone in early December. The solar panels were disconnected for the test flight at Switzerland’s Dübendorf Airfield.
The plan is to complete testing, make ocean-spanning [...]
