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Solar plane breaks record for longest non-stop solo flight in history
2015-07-03 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A plane which is attempting to complete the first ever round-the-world solar powered flight lands in Hawaii. The plane took off from Nagoya in Japan on 29 June, meaning the flight has broken the record for the longest non-stop solo journey in history. The previous record was 72 hours; pilot André Borschberg lands after having been in the air for just under 118 hours.
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Solar Impulse lands in Hawaii longest non-stop solo flight in history
2015-07-03 18:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A solar plane attempting the worlds first flight around the globe has landed in Hawaii, after breaking the record for the longest non-stop solo flight in history. Solar Impulse 2, piloted by the Swiss pilot André Borschberg, took off from Nagoya in Japan at 3am on Monday, for the five-day crossing of the Pacific Ocean, the riskiest leg of its journey. At 72 hours into the seventh leg of its 22,000-mile circumnavigation, Borschberg broke the endurance record for a solo flight. The next...
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Solar Impulse 2 begins longest solar-powered flight ever, forced to abort
2015-06-02 14:00:52| Extremetech
Solar Impulse 2 was forced to make an unscheduled landing during its flight from China to Hawaii because it got cloudy.
New York Great Lakes Shoreline Could Become Part of World's Longest Trail
2015-05-25 18:58:58| Chemicals - Topix.net
A hiking enthusiast is proposing to create a Great Lakes Trail, a single path around the shorelines of all five Great Lakes. If completed, it would be the longest marked trail in the world.
The Canadians who live along the route of the longest proposed tar sands pipeline in pictures
2015-05-09 14:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: TransCanadas proposed Energy East pipeline will be the single longest tar sands pipeline in the world if approved. It would carry crude oil and dilbit (diluted bitumen) from Alberta through Ontario to Quebec, and on to export terminals in the Maritimes. Photographer Robert van Waarden travelled over 2,796 miles along the length of the proposed pipeline from Hardisty, Aberta, to St John, New Brunswick, meeting people whose lives and livelihoods would be impacted by it
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