Solar Plane Soars Into Missouri
An ultralight airplane attempting a cross-country flight partially powered by solar energy made it to Missouri on Thursday, a spokesman said.
Eric Raymond took off in the Sun-Seeker from Fort Scott, Kan., at 11:45 a.m., spokesman Jack Whitehouse said. Raymond was headed due east on a course that would take him about 50 miles south of St. Louis, he said.
Whitehouse has tracked Raymond’s flight from the California airfield where it began Aug. 2. The plane has been grounded for four days for lack of sufficient thermal air currents.
Raymond had hoped to reach his final destination of Kittyhawk, N.C., on Sunday--in celebration of National Aviation Day, Whitehouse said. “But now we’re looking more realistically at Monday or Tuesday,” he said.
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