Experimental aircraft Solar Impulse with pilot Andre Borschberg on board flying at sunrise above Payerne’s Swiss airbase last week during the first attempt to fly around the clock fuelled by nothing but the energy of the sun. The solar-powered aircraft was flying in circles high over Switzerland at first light well on its way to completing a historic round-the-clock flight.

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