2008-11-27

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The wings have arrived!

author: André Borschberg

It’s amazing! Five years to the day after starting the
Solar Impulse project we have just taken delivery of the main wing-spar
for the first airplane. This is in 3 parts, each 20 metres long, designed
and manufactured over the past two years by our teams and the Décision
naval dockyards. Placed end-to-end that’s 61 metres of wing. Believe me,
seeing this key piece assembled for the first time in the construction
hangar is both moving and impressive.

And I’m still having a hard
time realizing that it’s with this that we’re going to be able to
fly.

André