Solar Impulse makes its remarkable journey

So congratulations to Bertrand Piccard and Solar Impulse’s other pilot, André Borschberg. Maybe we will have electric airliners one of these days, if only somebody can come up with the right battery—but in the meantime we should be working hard on making carbon-neutral fuel.

Solar Impulse, pictured landing in Brussels on May 13, 2011. Photograph courtesy of the Brussels Airport

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 1, 2016

LONDON, ENGLAND—As I write this, Solar Impulse is already in the air on the last 48-hour leg of its remarkable journey: the first round-the-world flight by an aircraft that uses no fuel except sunlight. By the time you read it, pilot Bertrand Piccard will probably have landed in Abu Dhabi,...

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