circumnavigation of globe Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:14:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Solar Plane Pilots to Push Limits of Human Endurance to Stretch Minds https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-plane-pilots-push-limits-human-endurance-stretch-minds-20141002/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-plane-pilots-push-limits-human-endurance-stretch-minds-20141002/#respond Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:14:46 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49421 Last year, the Solar Impulse made history by flying across the continental US from the Golden Gate to the Statue of Liberty.  It was not because it was the first solar plane to do so, but because it was the first solar plane to do so by flying day and night. The 63 m wide […]

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