The first balloon flight, the first flight of the plane, the first launch of space – these make a man passed into history and have set an important development directions of technological civilization. This may well be now. On Monday early morning piloted by businessman and pilot Andre Borschberg airplane powered only by solar energy rose into the air and flew 400 km stretch. Smoothly.
The aim is epic trip around the world in about five months. Pilots will be two: beyond these Borschbergiem also a famous adventurer and balloonist Bertrand Piccard. He’s the one in 1999. Along with Brian Jones in Orbiter 3 balloon Breitiling fell off the globe non-stop flight. Piccard family has a long history in overcoming barriers: his father Jacques Piccard in 1960 batyskafie Trieste descended to the greatest depths of the sea in history, and grandfather Auguste Piccard in 1931. Was the first man ascended to the stratosphere balloon.
build a solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse was launched in 2008. in Switzerland and engaged in her power, such as the European Space Agency (ESA) and Deutsche Bank. The aircraft has already had several flights – in Europe and the United States – mainly test, for example, having to check whether it is possible to flying a plane powered only by photovoltaic cells at night.
built a flight simulator such a vehicle, created flight control center, set up a technical team that is on the earth accompanied by the Solar Impulse 2 overflight in space – all in order to move to fly around the world. This flight has just started. The aircraft will fly 35 thousand. km and will, of course, stops, during which the exchange pilots, technical teams will examine the status and readiness to further stages of the trip, and then waiting for it until two big crossings – For the Pacific and the Atlantic. Because of its speed is not high (up ok.130 km / h), by each of the oceans to be flying non-stop about five days and five nights. How lonely pilots make?
The plane, a single cantilevered high-wing powered by four electric motors, weighs 2.5 tons, is made largely of carbon fibers and has a wingspan … a trifle – 72 m. This nearly span the A380. The wings are covered entirely monocrystalline photovoltaic solar panels, which are obtained from the sun energy into electricity process driving motors. A significant part of the energy is stored in the lithium-ion batteries, which will supply the aircraft during night flights.
However, Piccard and Borschberg are beyond the technical feat and adventure even one goal in front of you, perhaps the most important. Solar Impulse 2 Fly around the world want to call mankind to revise its energy policy. Is to promote clean energy generation methods, and therefore not from fossil fuels, but renewable energy – sun, wind, water.
The idea of this is not about saving or simply modernity, it’s not even that resources Fossil in the end they are exhausted, and we have to look for sources of replacement today – but of something much more important. It is about the world itself, which is already too poisoned and destroyed, so that you can continue to exploit its mineral and degradoqwać environment indefinitely. Solar Impulse Mission 2 is thus a kind of cry is that people finally looked at the Earth as your home, which can not be exchanged for another. The house does not have a spare. Such a mission, but only started, you may have success.
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