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4/24/2016 8:16 am  #1


Now This is Cool

(CNN)  An experimental plane flying around the world without a single drop of fuel landed in California after a two-and-a-half day flight across the Pacific.

Piloted by Swiss explorer and psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse 2 touched down in Mountain View just before midnight (3 a.m. ET).



"It's a new era. It's not science fiction. It's today," Piccard told CNN from California after his successful voyage. "It exists and clean technologies can do the impossible."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/24/travel/solar-impulse-2-plane-california/
 

Last edited by Just Fred (4/24/2016 8:18 am)

 

4/24/2016 9:46 am  #2


Re: Now This is Cool

It better be mostly sunny ! 


"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
 
 

4/24/2016 10:00 am  #3


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4/24/2016 11:13 am  #4


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It better be mostly sunny ! 

That's probably why the solar energy is stored in a battery system aboard the plane.  Anyway, you gotta admit the whole thing is pretty cool.
 

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