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Around The World On A Solar Powered Plane?  
User currently offlineRootsAir From Costa Rica, joined Feb 2005, 4179 posts, RR: 45
Posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 1274 times:

Fly with the sun

What a beautiful concept. This should become true when the Swiss physician Bertran Piccard, first man to fly around the world on a baloon with Brian jones will fly a Solar power plane around the world .His family has an adventurous heritage

"His objective is to use a great human adventure for an improvement that will promote the survival of the planet"

The project's name plane's name will be "solar impulse"

He will get the support of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, the swiss equivalent of MIT. The big difficulty is to be able to store enought energy to fly during the night .
The first tests should start in 2007 and he hopes to fly by 2009




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User currently offlineRootsAir From Costa Rica, joined Feb 2005, 4179 posts, RR: 45
Reply 1, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 1196 times:

could anyone tell me if Brian Jones will join the adventure?


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User currently offlineHAWK21M From India, joined Jan 2001, 31201 posts, RR: 58
Reply 2, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 1153 times:

What about Nights.
regds
MEL


Think of the brighter side!
User currently offlineRootsAir From Costa Rica, joined Feb 2005, 4179 posts, RR: 45
Reply 3, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 1147 times:

The solar pannels will be specially designed to store enough energy to run the night. That's the biggest challenge and expalins why the flight won't take place before a long time.
Regards


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