This Sun Powered Airplane Could Be the Future of Aviation

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Sep 13th, 2016


Pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg show WIRED around the enormous solar-panel covered wings of the Solar Impulse 2 plane and inside its cramped cockpit.

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