TWO Swiss pilots hope to become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in an aeroplane powered only by the sun. The experimental plane, named the Solar Impulse II, was presented in Switzerland's ...

A solar plane with wings as wide as a 747 and the power of a small motorboat took to the skies for the first time Wednesday, cruising a mile high at bicycle-like speeds for nearly 1½ hours in a step ...

NEW YORK --Solar Impulse 2, the solar-powered airplane on a globe-circling voyage that began more than a year ago in the United Arab Emirates, reached a milestone Saturday, completing a trip across ...

On Wednesday, June 15, more than 300 New York City elementary, middle, and high school students joined Covestro and Swiss Consulate representatives at JFK International Airport to welcome the ...

The 70 million-euro project has been conducting flea-hop tests since December, taking the plane no higher than 60 centimeters (2 feet) in altitude and 300 meters (1,000 feet) in distance. A night ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A plane powered only by the sun is waiting for the wind to die down before taking off from Moffett Field in Mountain View. Sky7 HD captured the moment on Saturday when the Solar ...

The cliché question is: How do you fly a solar-powered airplane at night? The Swiss research team behind the Solar Impulse answered with a 24-hour endurance flight last week, proving that it is ...

The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane made a smooth landing in Washington early Sunday, leaving just one more solar-powered hop to go in its cross-continent odyssey. The 208-foot-wide (63-meter-wide) ...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world’s first round-the-world flight to be powered solely by the sun’s energy made history on Tuesday as it landed in Abu Dhabi, where it first took off on ...

DAYTON, Ohio — A solar-powered airplane has touched down in the Ohio hometown of two of America's most well-known aviation pioneers on the latest leg of its around-the-world journey. The Swiss-made ...

ABC News goes inside the hangar with pilot Bertrand Piccard. — -- Solar Impulse, a solar-powered airplane being flown by two alternating pilots, will soon take off on a transatlantic flight -- ...