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The attempt of first flight around the world with a fed airplane only to solar energy is begun
"Solar Impulse 2" is taken off today by Abu Dhabi
March 9, 2015
today. The aircraft Solar Impulse 2 is taken off by directed Abu Dhabi to Muscat, in Oman, from where it will continue in order to fly over the Arabic Gulf and to reach Ahmedabad in India.
Today they take off is carried out by André Borschberg who will be replaced in Oman by Bertrand Piccard. The two pilots, in fact, will alternate themselves in the travel of 35.000 kilometers around the world. Piccard and Borschberg are respective president and managing director of Solar Impulse, the enterprise who have promoted and founded with the objective to demonstrate the importance of renewable energies.
The gone attempt today will have a total duration of about five months in the course of which 25 days of flight will be carried out. After to have reached India the Si2 flies over Myanmar, China, the Pacific Ocean, the USA, the Atlantic Ocean, South Europe or Nord Africa in order to land newly to Abu Dhabi.
The more challenging feature of the distance will be the flight not-stop of five days and five nights through the Pacific Ocean, from China to Hawaii. The airplane fed from 17.248 solar cells will go up to an altitude that will reach the 10,000 meters during the day in order to recharge totally its batteries so as to remain in flight for all the night.
The attempt is realized in collaboration with Helvetic group ABB, than work in the field of the technologies for the energy and the automation and that with three engineers it has worked with the team of Solar Impulse in order to improve the yield of the feeding of the solar cells and to upgrade the electronic members of recharges for the system of batteries of the airplane.
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today. The aircraft Solar Impulse 2 is taken off by directed Abu Dhabi to Muscat, in Oman, from where it will continue in order to fly over the Arabic Gulf and to reach Ahmedabad in India.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
