And AeroVironment's Solar Challenger did it on a 163 mile flight way back in 1981:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Challenger John --- John G. Blair Studio Occidental, California (about an hour north of the Bay Area) http://www.jgblairphoto.com - general photography http://www.johngblairstudio.com - commercial and stock photography http://www.johngblair.com - author website On Jul 9, 2015, at 5:39 PM, Cor van de Water via EV wrote: > What about the solar plane that is making a trip around the world? > Or is this the technicality that it is required to land in UK and immediately > across the canal > so a plane flying around the world and touching down only sporadically is not > considered > the first electric plane to cross the canal? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150709/5a5afded/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
