“Crowds of spectators welcomed the solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse on Monday as it returned to Switzerland onboard a jumbo jet following its successful trans-American flight.  A Boeing 747 jumbo carrying the prototype aircraft of aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard landed at Dübendorf airfield in the canton of Zurich just after 7am, the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper reported. Pilots Piccard and André  Borschberg completed the historic flight from San Francisco in early July.  The world’s first solar aircraft able to fly both day and night powered solely by the sun flew 5,650 kilometres across the United States.”

http://www.thelocal.ch/20130805/solar-aircraft-returns-home-after-cross-america-flight

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