"Solar Impulse" Completes 24hr Flight

[Dain Arns]

Next flight may be a crossing of "The Pond"....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38142746/ns/us_news-environment

[MaddogK]

to this solar powered plane. a 200 lb limit, no heat, only 3 navigational instruments and it has to have a 207 ft wingspan to do all this? I wonder what a porta-potty, a heater, and food stores weigh for a trans-atlantic crossing...

His only complaints involve little things like a slightly sore back as well as a 10-hour period during which it was minus 20 degrees Celsius in the cockpit.”

“That made his drinking water system freeze up and worse of all his iPod batteries die.”