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title: The Thrill of Flying a Solar Plane With a Coffin-Sized Cockpit — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/the-thrill-of-flying-a-solar-plane-with-a-coffin-sized-cockpit/
date: 2016-04-28
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# The Thrill of Flying a Solar Plane With a Coffin-Sized Cockpit

Pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg show WIRED around the enormous solar-panel covered wings of the Solar Impulse 2 plane and inside its cramped cockpit.