> I think this has been done before.
This same solar powered aircraft has been flown across America. Now they’re trying for circumnavigating the globe, from Abu Dhabi to Abu Dhabi. Across the Pacific will be interesting.
More about the plane, the team and the flights on http://www.solarimpulse.com/
and http://www.solarimpulse.com/en/our-adventure/the-first-round-the-world-solar-flight/
bob(from black rock) said:
I take it that it won’t be a non-stop flight, or will there be a second pilot?
Both. It has stopovers and there is a second pilot. The plane will only hold one person. The second pilot is André Borschberg.
Bertrand Piccard is already famous for his circumnavigation of the world in a balloon, and his father Jacques Piccard is famous for descending into the Marianas Trench, and Jean-Luc Picard from …
The route: Solar Impulse 2 will take-off from Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirate, in late February or early March and return by late July or early August 2015. The route includes stops in Muscat, Oman; Ahmedabad and Varanasi, India; Mandalay, Myanmar; and Chongqing and Nanjing, China. After crossing the Pacific Ocean via Hawaii, it will fly across the Continental U.S.A. stopping in three locations – Phoenix, and New York City at JFK. A location in the Midwest will be decided dependent on weather conditions. After crossing the Atlantic, the final legs include a stop-over in Southern Europe or North Africa before arriving back in Abu Dhabi.
