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The "Sunseeker II", solar energy airplane, overflies the Alps and lands in Turin

Turin, Italy - In the next days it will take off again to overfly all Peninsula

A century passed from the first crossing of the Alps by airplane. Next year the event's celebration by Peruvian Jorg (Geo) Chavez by a French Blériot monoplane. Last April 14 the American Eric Raymond has reached a similar record overflying the Alps from Switzerland to Turin on board of a Sunseeker II, an aircraft with electric engine powered by solar energy that he has designed and realized. The...

fra/pec - 1103099
Rome, Italy, 04/17/2009 16:36
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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