Bertrand Piccard announced April 15 the recovery of the world tour of Solar Impulse 2 after 10 months of enforced break in Hawaii. Back in pictures on this scientific and ecological epic.
Updated April 15, 2016 at 8:27 p.m. – March 9, 2015, Solar Impulse 2 began his incredible journey around the world. On board, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg launched into an extraordinary performance: achieving the first world tour in command of a solar aircraft capable of flying day … as night. After twelve years of research and a first operational prototype, March 9, 2015, Solar Impulse 2 takes off from the airport of Abu Dhabi to join one of Muscat in Oman.
The start to the trip do that was to last five months, including 25 days of actual flight but the elements will be unleashed until July 3, 2015, when, after a particularly long stage of 7212 km between the city of Nagoya in Japan and island of Hawaii, the Solar Impulse batteries throw in the towel. A poor estimate of the effects of tropical temperatures causes the Solar Impulse to settle in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in a hangar at Kalaeloa Airport in Hawaii.
After ten months of repairs and several test phases, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg just announced on Twitter as soon as weather conditions are optimal, Solar Impulse will resume its flight to Phoenix in the US to finish what they started it a year.
The plane uses no fuel. photovoltaic cells and lithium-polymer gives it an autonomy of five days and five nights. Built in carbon fiber is its total mass of 1600 kg for a wingspan of 63.40 meters and a length of 22 meters. 11,628 photovoltaic cells allow it to move and reach a maximum altitude of 8500 meters.
Solar Impulse 2 is presented for the first time in public on 26 June 2009. This is Bertrand Piccard who initiated the project. Originally from Switzerland, this training psychiatrist is also the son of oceanographer Jacques Piccard, who worked in the construction of a lunar module for the Apollo program. His grandfather, Auguste Piccard was the first man to reach the stratosphere in a balloon. In 1997, in the footsteps of his grandfather, Bertrand Piccard launches into the realization of a round the world non-stop in a balloon. After two failures, he gets help from Brian Jones, pilot of the Royal Air Force (Royal Air Force) and loop the feat in 19 days, 21 hours and 47 minutes.
In 2003, it launches the Solar Impulse project with the Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. He is joined by André Borschberg, MIT graduate and former fighter pilot in the Swiss Air Force
video. Vol successful test for Solar Impulse above the Pacific
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