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Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online After a non-stop flight in the zero-fuel airplane, Solar Impulse co-founder Bertrand Piccard touched down at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport at 1:28 a.m. CDT on June 4, 2013, a little more than 21 hours after taking off from Dallas-Fort Worth. This was Piccard’s longest flight to date in the solar-powered airplane. The team’s arrival at St. Louis marks a key point in the Across America 2013 mission, as Piccard and his...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Solar Impulse team of Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg is facing a difficult challenge as it took off for St. Louis this morning. Besides a lingering threat for severe weather along the flight route, Friday’s wrath of storms damaged the hangar at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport to the point that it cannot be used. Despite the storm damage in St. Louis, the Solar Impulse team has moved ahead with the third leg...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Leg three of the Across America 2013 project is scheduled to take off on June 3 with Bertrand Piccard returning to the helm of the HB-SIA zero-fuel airplane. The Solar Impulse team of Piccard and Andre Borschberg will continue on from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Lambert-St. Louis International Airport on Monday, weather permitting. According to an emailed statement, the team said a positive weather window is opening...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online While May 20th may have come and gone just like any other day this year, the day stands out as a landmark date in aviation history for not one, but two events, both occurring exactly five years apart. It was 86 years ago this week that Michigan-native Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly across the Atlantic – from New York to Paris – in his Spirit of St. Louis aircraft in 33.5 hours. Lindbergh officially became the...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A Frenchman is heading up the fifth search for a plane that disappeared over 80 years ago when two pilots attempted to complete a transatlantic flight. Rachel Kaufman, writing for the National Geographic News, wrote a report about how Bernard Decré is attempting to find the plane of Charles Nungesser and François Coli. The two pilots, flying the White Bird aircraft, set off to fly from Europe to North America just 13 days before...
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The San Francisco Aeronautical Society is pleased to announce the inaugural winners of the SFAS Scholars Program, in recognition of the historical contributions made by the many legends of aviation. Scholarships are open to high school seniors attending a public high school in one of the following school districts: San Francisco Unified School District, San Mateo Union High School District, Jefferson Union High School District and Sequoia...
SILVER SPRING, Md., June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- This summer, SCIENCE returns to the laboratory to unearth history's most sinister tales with the second season of the breakout series DARK MATTERS: TWISTED BUT TRUE. Hosted by the incomparable John Noble (Fringe, Lord of the Rings), DARK MATTERS: TWISTED BUT TRUE opens forbidden research records on the most shocking scientific studies ever executed. From gruesome lobotomy experiments, to controversial CIA studies, to spine-chilling...
WASHINGTON, May 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090226/CENSUSLOGO) FRIDAY, MAY 6: FIRST TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT Profile America -- Friday, May 6th. Most people know that Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927. But fewer are aware that the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic made its historic journey eight years earlier. That...
WASHINGTON, March 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090226/CENSUSLOGO) FRIDAY, MARCH 18: AMELIA EARHART Profile America -- Friday, March 18th, noting Women's History Month. Amelia Earhart took off for the first solo crossing of the Atlantic by a woman on May 20, 1932 -- five years to the day after Charles Lindbergh's historic crossing. At the time, there were some...
Bernard Piccard is hoping to raise awareness about the potential for renewable energy by flying a solar-powered aircraft around the world. At the recent World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, Piccard told AFP that he wants to "fly day and night to show that, with renewable energies, you can have unlimited duration of flight, no restriction." Piccard held a booth at the summit to promote his venture. Piccard, a 51-year-old Swiss psychiatrist, plans to fly his unique "Solar Impulse" aircraft...
