Bright Sun, Bright Future for the Worlds First Solar Airplane

Bright Sun, Bright Future for the Worlds First Solar Airplane

Photo Taken By Gregory Blatt

The company Solar Impulse has created the first solar airplane capable of flying day and night, rain or shine, without using a drop of fuel. There was excitement among Americans when the company hosted its Across America tour using their original solar airplane. The Across America tour not only inspired people in the solar or aviation fields but it also caught the eyes of influential masterminds of the tech world. Larry Page, CEO and co-founder of Google decided on an official partnership with Solar Impulse’s Internet Technology Partner.

 Google will help enhance Solar Impulse’s social media presence and promote their goal in using only solar power to fly around the entire world. They will provide Solar Impulse its abundant amount of social media resources such as YouTube, Google Glass, Google Earth, Google Hangouts, and Google+ to improve its communication with its online presence and create attention among the company’s support base fans and followers. According to reports the ideal social media channel will be Google+ and the usage of Google Hangouts in live broadcasts during flights will bring the public closer to the pilots. 

 Dr. Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, Co-Founders of Solar Impulse said;

“This partnership is a unique occasion to promote mutually shared values like pioneering spirit, innovation, engineering excellence and clean technologies allowing to [us] protect natural resources. With Google on board, our reach with the public, younger generations, media and political and business decision makers will be significantly enhanced.”

The first nonstop solar-powered flight around the world is being planned for 2015.The company’s future looks as bright as the sun with their new partnership with world’s biggest internet powerhouse.