plane Solar Impulse II today landed in Hawaii (USA), islands after a five-day flight Pacific with what beats the world distance record for a solar-powered airplane and also becomes the longest such stretch manned alone.
Solar plane landed at the airport Kalaeloa Hawaii , at 15.55 GMT (05.55 local time), after 120 flight hours, A total of five days and five nights from taking off early Monday in Nagoya, Japan.
Inside the world tour that started the plane in March, crossing the Pacific was considered the most difficult stage, due to the weather instability and the long distance flight, that exceeds the sum of the previous six trips, which have taken turns Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg.
Borschberg, the which corresponded this section, landed in the Hawaiian airport shortly after dawn, five minutes ahead of schedule, with solar aircraft battery charged to 27% and after traveling a distance of 8,253 kilometers.
“I am excited by this extraordinary journey. I climbed an altitude equivalent to Mount Everest five times without much rest, “ Borschberg wrote on the website of the project that he created with Piccard, a few hours after landing.
Borschberg broke the record longer alone on a solar-powered plane, which had until now the American Steve Fossett, who in 2006 flew 76 hours in a row in the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer flight.
“What Borschberg has achieved is extraordinary for a pilot “ said Piccard on the website of the project.
” This oceanic flight to Hawaii shows that if there are technological solutions to fly a plane clock without fuel, there is potential to use these same efficient technologies in our everyday lives to save energy and reduce CO2 emissions, “said Piccard.
ship. The solar plane, it feeds more than 17,000 solar cells, aims to mark a historic milestone. travel 35,000 kilometers without using a single drop of fuel, to raise awareness about the use of clean energy from contaminants traditional fuels
In the During this flight, Borschberg updated his Twitter account to share his impressions, like the time he could see “the full moon and the sun at the same time” and its practice of yoga in the cab to keep the mind awake.
The next tranche will pilot of the plane Piccard, who will head to the city of Phoenix (Arizona), in the American South, at a time that is determined by the weather.
So far, the journey of the solar airplane has included stopovers in Muscat, Oman; Ahmedabad and Varanasi, India ;, Mandalay, Burma; Chongqing and Nanjing, China, and Nagoya in Japan.
EFE
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