Tall, slim and rakishly elegant, he could be the American reincarnation of British actor David Niven.

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Paul Kellner, 97 years old, his white hair rakishly combed over his head, stares out of the big bay window in his Fifth Avenue Manhattan apartment.

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In one corner is a pale-yellow Brastemp Retro mini-refrigerator, with rakishly angled chrome legs and a curved chrome handle, a product made by the Brazilian arm of Whirlpool.

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After seven years of tinkering, they arrived at a machine with a deceptively simple design: Solar Impulse with its sleek, clean lines, white-gloss finish and rakishly angled 208-foot wings (bent to increase the plane's stability) resembles what you might get had Steve Jobs reimagined a child's balsa-wood glider in giant form.

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