A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
However, neither the Apple 1 nor the rare antique television were sold. Apple 1 computers are usually valuable collectables. Made in 1976, there are now only about 50 left in the world. At a similar sale last year, one fetched $365,000 (£237,000). And in 2013, another attracted a $905,000 bid. The Apple 1 at Monday's vintage tech sale had a starting price of $300,000. The Cray-4 processor sold for $37,500. The 1936 Baird television set may not work and delivers a huge electrical charge of 5000 volts. But auctioneer Bonhams had forecast that it could fetch between $20,000 (£13,000) and $30,000.He was working on the Cray-4 model when his company went bankrupt in 1995, and the following year he died in a traffic accident. The processor, with serial number 001, was listed with an expected price tag of $50,000 - $80,000. Other lots included an early German Enigma machine, handwritten paperwork by Albert Einstein and a 19th Century te...