Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard has been the first person who made the crossing from Europe to Afrika in a solar powered airplane. This was the first time that an airplane of this type made an intercontinental flight.
On Tuesday morning at dawn Piccard (54 y/o) left Madrid. After a 10 hour flight he reached Maroccan airspace with his plane 'Solar Impulse' after crossing the mediteranean sea. Late night he landed his plane in Rabat.
The Solar Impulse has a wingspan of 64 meter, comparable with an Airbus 340. It weighs only 1600 kilo's, about the weight of a luxury car. The wing is covered with solar panels and together with the batteries it can fly day and night.
For more information on the Solar Impulse and the team behind it, go here: solarimpulse.com/
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