10.03 | 20:21
Today, in many countries of the world, intensive research in the field of storage of solar electricity.
Solar energy is increasingly finds application in aerospace and aviation.
An excellent example can be started yesterday in Abu Dhabi (UAE) circumnavigation flight aircraft Solar “Solar Impulse-2».
The plane started running Borsherga Andre, a former military pilot, currently working expert in the field of Internet technologies. The first landing was in Oman, Muscat airport.
Next, took the baton Bertrand Piccard, who today continued its flight towards India. This site will take about 16 hours.
circumnavigation of air travel is expected to take 5 months.
The project “Solar Impulse” is already in the account number of world records in the category of flight on solar energy, one of the them – flight in 2013 across the US territory.
The accumulated previous experience will help in flight over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, as the low-speed flight with direct flight will take several days and nights. The pilot will be given only 20 minutes to sleep, though close cabin – not the best place to stay.
Interestingly, the Picard – a descendant of the famous adventurers and Jacques Auguste Piccard, who visited in the stratosphere and the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
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