Comments on: Solar Impulse, Famous Solar Airplane, Carries a Message (VIDEO) http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/20/solar-impulse-famous-solar-airplane-carries-a-message-video/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Conrad Clement http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/20/solar-impulse-famous-solar-airplane-carries-a-message-video/#comment-176410 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:17:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=54144#comment-176410 The message is indeed: “Ladies and Gentlemen, if you thought of your own private solar aircraft as a substitute to your motorcar, forget it! Look at the huge wing span it would need!”

Big Oil is behind this. In 1983, McCready’s SolarChallenger, a solar plane with a 17 meter wing span (!), took off from Paris without batteries, climbed to 3000 meters and landed 5 hours later at Winston Air Base in the UK!

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