Solar night flight postponed
The Solar Impulse’ attempt to fly an experimental aircraft through the night has been postponed due to a technical problem.
“A failure occurred in a critical piece in the plane,” Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, the venture's founder and previously the first balloonist to circumnavigate the globe, said. “We have taken the decision to postpone the takeoff to another day,” he told a press conference and hour before the flight had been due to set off in near perfect weather conditions. It is a big disappointment for us.”
The ultra-light aircraft, flown by joint founder Andre Borschberg, had been set to take-off from the Payerne airbase in Switzerland on July 1st and then fly for 25 hours through the day and the night.
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