David Firestone (NYT) SCIENCE AND HEALTH DOCTOR RESCUED FROM POLE -- A rescue plane completed the perilous first leg of flight from the South Pole, carrying an ailing American doctor across Antarctica to a base near the coast.
Shortly after the plane completed the 3-hour 47-minute flight at an airport outside the Spanish city of Seville, the German deputy defense minister, Rüdiger Wolf, told reporters that the countries had agreed to a final set of specifications and requirements.
In 2010 the plane completed a 26-hour non-stop flight that proved the plane could stay flying at night with the energy that its solar cells received during the day.
The plane completed the first leg of the journey from San Francisco to Phoenix in early May and flew later that month from Phoenix to Dallas.
The plane completes this journey in half an hour.
The 37 planes have completed roughly 21,400 flights, said Mr. Dubon, the Airbus spokesman.
Air Force C-17 transport planes had completed five flights from bases in France into Bamako, the capital of Mali, by Tuesday, delivering 80 troops and more than 120 tons of their equipment, according to George Little, the Pentagon press secretary.
Airbus's electric plane successfully completed a flight from the UK to France on Friday morning.
A water-borne answer to the Solar Impulse – the plane that completed its round-the-globe trip using only solar energy in July – the Energy Observer will be powered by the sun, the wind and self-generated hydrogen when it sets sail in February as scheduled.
Boeing's latest Dreamliner plane has completed its first flight.
