Bertrand Picard and his Solar Impulse aircraft are now in Nanjing, China preparing for the long leg across the Pacific Ocean http://www.solarimpulse.com/ . While the Solar impulse mission of flying around the world is quite an undertaking and a costly operation it appears that solar aviation is a burgeoning reality.
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THE ESSENCE OF A PILOT
> Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane; the pessimist, the parachute.