[nickcarraway]

[Fai Mao]

I hope they make it

[Westbrook]

> The crew that helped it take off was clearing out of its
> Hawaiian hangar and headed for the mainland for the weekend
> arrival.

Let me guess.

They took a commercial flight using thousands of pounds of “fossil” fuel to get to the mainland before their solar powered buddies.

[Joe Boucher]

Best not fly too close to the sun.

[Vinnie]

Hope they didn’t name the plane ‘Icarus’.

[CapnJack]

Hope they have the super size Depends daipers on.
That will be one smelly cockpit when they land.

[mosesdapoet]

That has some value commercially if they put that system of propulsion in a rigid airship.

[Islander7]

"...carving their way into a new future of solar-powered flight..."

Yep, in the future, all aircraft will be solar powered. The problem is carrying only one passenger at a time for four or five days.

[Recompennation]

Barking up the wrong tree. When coon hunting the dog’s ability is everything
Unfortunately we are the ones being treed by the climate push tingly leg agenda.

[johniegrad]

Solar Plane Successfully Departs

The success of this flight won't be measured by its departure.

[fella]

To carry 200 passengers how big would they have to make one of those?

[xp38]

when the solar plane didn't take off.

[DungeonMaster]

The neatest thing about solar planes is how high they can fly. One got up to about 100,000 feet.

[onedoug]

And the point of this is?...

[faucetman]

I hope it floats.

[RegulatorCountry]

I’m sure they feel a touch of panic when the sun sets. That will make for a long night, running on batteries and gliding on a managed descent until sunrise.

[Oztrich Boy]

Amelia Earhart also departed successfully.