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AIN Blog: Solar Impulse Impresses, Even When Not Flying
The electrically powered Solar Impulse (HB-SIA) is an amazing airplane and I was anxious to see it fly d

The electrically powered Solar Impulse (HB-SIA) is an amazing airplane and I was anxious to see it fly during the Paris Air Show. Unfortunately for me and probably many others who attended the biennial event, the weather did not cooperate until the last day of the show, June 26.

By then I had already returned to the States after being gone from June 14 to 24. I had spent most of my time at Le Bourget Airport in our company “chalet,” editing manuscripts and checking pages for AIN’s Paris Airshow News. I put “chalet” in quotes, because ours was a four-walled, one-story temporary building that looked nothing like the picturesque Swiss mountain cabins that the word brings to mind.