Flying a solar plane across the Pacific is about as easy as it sounds

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By Alex DaviesMay 5, 2015, 4:20 pm746 ptsHotTop
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Later this week, a single-seat, solar-powered plane with a wingspan longer than that of a Boeing 747 will take off from Nanjing, China, headed for Honolulu. For a normal passenger jet, that’s about…

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