Solar Impulse, the world's only totally solar powered plane, is expected to fly from Switzerland to Brussels tomorrow and you can watch it all on a live App.
The project is supported by Solvay and Bayer Material Science among others, and none of them seem concerned about the unpropitious date of Friday 13 May.
In a press release today, they said that the weather was looking good, and that the plane would be taking off from Payerne, Switzerland at around 06:00 and would be landing at Brussels airport some time after 21:00 hours. So the flight should last approximately 12 hours, they said - not ideal for business travel, but pretty impressive for a plane powered purely by the sun.
Journalists are being invited to attend the landing at Brussels and even offered the chance of in-flight interviews with the pilot.
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