Solar Impulse Makes First International Flight (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

AOL Travel News:

The Solar Impulse took its first international flight on Friday from Switzerland to Belgium, the Associated Press reports.

The flight is a first for the aircraft, which made its maiden voyage in 2009. The plane completed a non-stop 26-hour flight that proved that the plane can stay aloft at night.

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Comments

[colah]

08:19 PM on 05/13/2011

Awesome.
Next up: every exterior surface on electric cars to be panels.

[Cacey]

12:15 PM on 05/13/2011

One must ask if any Americans have been working toward this objective.  For most of our history we have been among the leaders in scientific and technological breakthrough yet today it seems that so many particulary on the right are follwers of the No We Can't rather than Yes We Can. 

[nirek]

12:06 PM on 05/13/2011

Great breakthrough!
This is how it starts , with experiments like this !
I love it, it is progress. We just need to keep trying new and interesting things.

[firstep]

11:16 AM on 05/13/2011

Okay, lets see a jumbo jet filled with 300 passengers stay aloft at night.

[colah]

08:18 PM on 05/13/2011

Just look up.
When its dark.
Of course.

[imtruthmonger]

10:35 AM on 05/13/2011

The Wright brothers would be thrilled and proud to be its pilots.

[seawillow]

10:01 AM on 05/13/2011

Absolutely red-meat eatin', steroid-fueled, blue-ribbon cool.