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Monday, April 6, 2015

Flying from solar energy, Solar Impulse 2 'world journey


Solar-powered aircraft on a round-the world is left on a mission.
'Solar Impulse 2, if the ship is able to do this so it will be a new record.
At 2:30 GMT on Monday night on the ship departed from Abu Dhabi and Oman from the first phase will reach India.
During the next five months through different continents around the world will try to.
At the same time environmentally friendly technology will also be promoted.
The ship will fly at night
Solar Impulse's CEO, told the BBC: "This is a special ship and we have to go over the Atlantic.'
Solar-powered plane project has already made several records, which was added in 2013 to cross the US circling around the world is a very different campaign.
For this purpose, Solar Impulse One versus a big plane "Solar Impulse II, has been developed.
The new solar ship is 72 meters long wings are bigger than jumbo jet's wings, but the ship's weight is only 2.3 tons. The weight will be important in terms of mission success.
Solar energy to 17 thousand solar cells mounted on its wings and lithium batteries to store energy, which will also be installed with the help of the ship will be able to fly at night.
The length of the wings of the plane is 72 meters taller than the jumbo jet wings
To cross the Pacific and Atlantic flight at night would be extremely important because it is the average speed of 72 kilometers per hour.
The size of the pilot in the cockpit of the plane is too low. Only 3.8 cubic meters of cockpit pilot will also be physical difficulties.
During the flight, the pilot will be allowed to sleep only 20 minutes intervals.

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