EXPLOIT Capable of flying day and night with solar energy as the only fuel, the 2 Solar Impulse aircraft landed on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi …
C is a historic achievement. Solar Impulse 2 landed on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi. This aircraft capable of flying day and night with solar energy as the only fuel has completed a round of unprecedented world technological challenge as human.
The aircraft landed safely at 4:05 (2:05 Paris time) at Al-Batten airport near the capital of the United Arab Emirates, where he had gone 9 March 2015 for a journey of over 42,000 km, through four continents, performed without a drop of fuel
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One device, two pilots
Driven by Swiss Bertrand Piccard, the appliance Cairo Sunday party, has traveled 2763 kilometers in more than 48 hours for the 17th and last stage of his journey, to promote renewable energy.
“the future is clean,” said Bertrand Piccard launched, applauded and greeted on the tarmac with cries of “hear, hear”.
he was soon joined by his compatriot André Borschberg, with whom he alternated in command of all the car along the journey.
Some of the teams celebrated the feat by improvising a Swiss fondue in the shed.
Historical
“It’s so exciting” to fly on a plane that is “no noise, no pollution,” said Bertrand Piccard reporters , including the AFP.
“it is believed that this is science fiction, but in fact this is the reality today,” said the driver, who did not show signs of fatigue
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The Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-moon expressed his “profound admiration” for this? experience. “This is a historic day, not only for you but humanity,” said Ban Ki-moon at Bertrand Piccard while flying over the Gulf waters.
Weighing a ton and a half, but as large as a Boeing 747, the SI2 flew at an average speed of 80 km / h thanks to batteries that store solar energy captured by some 17,000 solar cells on its wings.
“clean technologies can achieve the impossible”
“I started the project in 2003 @solarimpulse to convey the message that clean technologies can achieve the impossible,” recalled Bertrand Piccard in a tweet.
He realized his dream. But it was slow: the convolution, at over 8,500 meters at most, lasted more than a year and four months. It was originally planned to last five months, including 25 days of actual flight
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Party of Abu Dhabi, the aircraft landed successively in Muscat (Oman), Ahmedabad and Varanasi (India ), Mandalay (Burma), Chongqing and Nanjing (China) and Nagoya (Japan) and Hawaii (USA), where he made an unscheduled pitstop several months before reaching and crossing the America North, stopping in San Francisco, Phoenix, Tulsa, Dayton, Lehigh Valley and New York.
extreme driving conditions
Then he crossed the Atlantic non-stop for arise on 23 June in Seville, in southern Spain, where he rallied Cairo July 13.
Bertrand Piccard made the first crossing of the Atlantic (6765 km) . André Borschberg entered the legend by driving the device to its stage over the Pacific, or 8924 km in less than 5 days and 5 nights (from 28 June 2015 to 3 July 2015), the longest flight lonely ever made.
The two Swiss have led in turn to a cockpit 3.8 m2 without air conditioning or heating, but equipped with oxygen cylinders to allow drivers to breathe and a toilet area.
“We made naps of 20 minutes. Exercises in the cockpit, half an hour, morning and afternoon, if after several days you can not move my arms and legs, “said Bertrand Piccard.
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“Very soon, there will be passengers on electric aircraft to be recharged on the floor,” he predicted, however, saying it will wait to see on solar planes
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