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Published online 20 February 2008 | Nature 451, 884-886 (2008) | doi:10.1038/451884a
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Solar power: A flight to remember
The dream of perpetual flight without fuel has inspired pilots to take to the skies in solar-powered planes. Vicki Cleave looks at a mission to fly a solar plane through the night — and around the world.
When the Wright brothers made their maiden flight in a powered aircraft on a windswept beach in 1903, it was a short hop, skip and jump into the record books. More than a century later another single-seater aircraft is on its way to making its own record-breaking hops, skips and jumps around the globe.
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