Solar Impulse made history this weekend when its HB-SIA airplane touched down late Saturday night in New York's John F. Kennedy airport, completing an entire cross-country United States flight relying solely on energy from that big old star in the Earth's backyard. The Switzerland-based Solar Impulse organization, founded by Swiss scientist/pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, described the milestone thusly:
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