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the first flight around the world only fed from solar energy
of the plan Solar Impulse
July 26, 2016
Succeeded Full
With the landing to Abu Dhabi yes is concluded with full load today succeeded the plan Solar Impulse that has put into effect . The airplane is landed to the 4,05 local time in the place of departure of its flight, where it is taken off beyond a year makes(of 9 March 2015), after a final stage of 48 hours and 37 minutes from Cairo.
draft - it has emphasized the pilot, promoter and president of Solar Impulse, Bertrand Piccard, of "first historical for cleaned renewable energies and technologies, not only for aviation". During its flight around the world, Solar Impulse has called in four continents (Asia, America North, Europe and Africa) and has flown through two oceans (the Pacific and the Atlantic), as well as on the Mediterranean Sea and the Arabic Peninsula. Along its distance it has established numerous records in the field of the aviation, between which that of the duration longer than solitary flight in for an airplane (117 hours and 52 minutes), achieved from André Borschberg, Co-founder, CEO and pilot of Solar Impulse, during the flight from Japan to Hawaii, and the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean on a realized solar airplane from Bertrand Piccard.
Helvetic group ABB has participated to the plan in quality of technological partner. The managing director of the Swiss group, Ulrich Spiesshofer, has evidenced that the success of the flight constitutes "an indeed historical result, with enormous a symbolic meaning. He demonstrates clearly - he has found Spiesshofer - that, with clean pioneering spirit and technologies we can live the planet without to consume of the resources. On behalf of all the ABB people I want to be congratulare with Bertrand Piccard, André Borschberg and with the remainder of the team of Solar Impulse. We are extremely proud to have been able to contribute to this extraordinary plan".
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With the landing to Abu Dhabi yes is concluded with full load today succeeded the plan Solar Impulse that has put into effect . The airplane is landed to the 4,05 local time in the place of departure of its flight, where it is taken off beyond a year makes
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
