This is
the world's first solar powered airplane, that can travel around the world
without a single ounce of fuel! This
plane took off from Northern California on Friday for a first leg of the trip
around the world. In its flight it well
land in Phoenix, Dallas Fort Worth airport in Texas, Lambert-St.Louis airport,
Dulles airport in Washington, and New York's John F. Kennedy airport. Each stop well last ten days and the flight
to each stop well be about nineteen through twenty five hours long. The flight is so long because it is a first
attempt of the solar powered airplane and it costs $140,000,000! Borschberg and Piccard are the founders of
the team who started this project, and want to show people what you can do with
solar power. Yet this plane only travels
at 40 mph and weighs as much as a car.
Source: The
Charlotte Observer
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