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Airplane Driven By The Sun Energy-Solar Impulse Aircraft

It weighs the equivalent of a car and is "pushed" by the Sun The Solar Impulse is the first manned plane with solar power.

The first manned airplane that flies on solar energy as fuel, Solar Impulse Airplane. Light as car due also to the ultralight lithium batteries, wings are similar to those of the Airbus A380, about 63 meters.

The company say that while the solar impulse airplane doesn't achieve the regular speed of normal airplane flying in the sky, it does not to consume a single drop of fossil fuel and better, for the environment, it simply does not cause a single gram of pollution for the planet.

 
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