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Solar Impulse, which is the first airplane designed to fly day and night without fuel, is attempting to fly for the first time at night. The plane took off at 6:51 this morning, local time from the Payerne airbase in Switzerland, and as of this writing, everything was proceeding as planned, and night was just beginning to fall. "It's not just a question of flying the plane, but the team working together on the strategy of making the profile of flying through the night," said Bertrand Piccard, president and founder of the Solar Impulse project, during a webcast update on the flight. "For now, cross fingers, everything is going well. The sky is completely clear, (pilot) Andre (Borscherg) is warm, and so he is looking forward to getting to a higher atmosphere, of 13,000 feet. "
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