Ferdinand Magellan was the first to do it by boat, the US military was the first to do it by plane; today, Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg became the first people to circumnavigate the globe by solar aircraft. They kept their carbon-fiber aircraft up in the air for 26 days of total airtime, […]

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