Packing Up A Solar-Powered Plane That Will Fly Across America [Video]

Solar Impulse wants to go coast to coast, day and night. brightcove.createExperiences(); Planes usually eat up a lot of fuel, but one team is trying to make a long flight without any fuel at all. Solar Impulse--a solar-powered plane with a 747-sized wingspan--runs entirely on solar power, and its inventors want to show its chops by sending it on a flight across the United States this year. But first they had to pack it up and send it to its destination. Despite a big wingspan, the aircraft, call...