The Solar Impulse is set for its first night flight tomorrow June 29 2010. The forecast is good and all tests have been passed. At about 4:30 am, Pilot Andre Borshberg will take the all-solar-powered craft for a two hour test flight at the Payerne airbase. Previous flights have shown the solar power can be stored in the onboard batteries and then used at night.
This will probably be the last test before the full night flight.
Solar Impulse is being designed, built and tested by a consortium of European engineers, scientists and designers with the intent of completing a global circumnavigation using only solar power in 2011.
Visit their blog on www.solarimpulse.com to get all information on the course of this test flight and videos of previous flights.
What point is it being african if you cannot get sunburnt.
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