This Day in Aviation History

August 7th, 1980
Janice Brown pilots Paul MacCready’s Gossamer Penguin, the first solar-powered aircraft without battery-stored energy, in a 15-minute test flight in California.

Wikipedia, Gossamer Penguin:   http://bit.ly/1oup2zL

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