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Solar-powered plane completes 20-hour flight

By Associated Press in Rabat, Morocco | China Daily | Updated: 2012-06-07 08:16

Solar-powered plane completes 20-hour flight

Crew members of the Solar Impulse project check the experimental aircraft upon its arrival at Rabat airport in Morocco on Tuesday after a 20-hour trip from Madrid. The flight marked the first transcontinental journey by a craft of its type. Abdeljalil Bounhar / Associated Press

An experimental solar-powered plane landed in Morocco's capital late Tuesday after a 20-hour trip from Madrid in the first transcontinental journey by a craft of its type.

Solar-powered plane completes 20-hour flight

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