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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