04.05. Mountain View (PAP / AFP) – solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse completed on Saturday morning time Polish first leg of the journey, landing in Phoenix. The machine was launched on Friday in Mountain View, California, the first in the history of flight through the whole territory of the United States from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
Machine, piloted by Swiss Bertrand Piccard, successfully landed after 18 hours of flight at 9.30 am Polish time.
Solar Impulse is considered to be the most technically advanced aircraft exclusively derived energy from solar cells. It is able to fly both day and night.
plane is equipped with more than 12 thousand. photovoltaic cells that cover its wings and propeller propulsion battery charge. They stored electrical energy allows you to fly even after sunset. Solar Impulse has a top speed around 64 km / h and is very lightweight. It weighs as much as the average car, and is therefore very vulnerable to the vagaries of weather and air currents. “All the great pioneers of the twentieth century tried to fly across America from coast to coast. Therefore, today we try to do the same thing, but using only the energy of the sun “- said Piccard, pilot machines and one of the founders of the project.Travel divided into stages. The first ended in Phoenix. The following is a Dallas-Fort Worth, St. Louis, Washington and New York. Flight on each stage will last from 19 to 25 hours.
machine builders are realizing that solar-powered aircraft never replace traditional liquefied fuel. They want, however – as noted Piccard – to demonstrate the potential of clean, renewable energy source.
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