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Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Weird Stuff, May 25th, 2012,
In preparation for its first round-the-world flight, the sun-powered Solar Impulse aircraft has completed the first leg of its flight across the Mediterranean by landing safely in Madrid this morning. The experimental solar airplane was making the first leg of its journey from Payerne, Switzerland to Rabat, Morocco. Though the plane has a wingspan comparable to a large jet, it only weighs as much as a mid-sized car. Lone pilot Andre Borschberg is quoted by AFP: The flight went very well and thanks to the team of meteorologists, everything went according to the plan: it was extraordinary. It was…
Tags: flight, impulse, plane, Solar
Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Weird Stuff, Jul 8th, 2010,
I recently wrote about lightweight manned electric airplanes making groundbreaking 2 and 3-hour flights. As impressive as this may sound, a Swiss solar-powered plane has just demolished these achievements by a ‘comfortable’ margin of 23 hours. On Thursday morning a former jet pilot in Switzerland’s air force successfully landed Solar Impulse, a four engine solar aircraft, near the Swiss capital of Bern. The landing followed an incredible 26-hour long flight; the longest and highest – at 8,700m or 28,543ft – ever recorded solar-powered airplane flight. From a BBC News report: The plane has 12,000 solar cells arranged on its wingspan…
Tags: aircraft, Airplane, cells, flight, plane, report, Solar, Solar Impulse, Swiss, Switzerland
Science & Technology, Weird Stuff, Apr 8th, 2010,
There was airplane history in the making yesterday at a Switzerland runway. A solar-powered plane, named the Solar Impulse, took flight for the first time. The plane is completely powered by the sun and uses no fuel; but its take-off speed is no faster than a fast moving bicycle (28 mph or 45 kph). Fortunately, this speed was enough for it to gain altitude and fade into the horizon nearly a mile above the Swiss landscape. The flight lasted a total of 90 minutes and during the trip, the plane made a series of turns by slightly tilting its black-and-white…
Tags: no fuel, plane, Solar, Solar Impulse, solar powered airplane, Switzerland, test flights
