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Chatterbox => Extraneous exchanges => Topic started by: Martin X. Moleski, SJ on March 09, 2015, 08:38:40 AM

Title: Solar Impulse 2 round-the-world sun-powered flight
Post by: Martin X. Moleski, SJ on March 09, 2015, 08:38:40 AM

They say that Solar Impulse 2 has taken off (http://www.gizmag.com/solar-impulse-begins-round-the-world-sun-powered-flight/36456/).

"A pair of Swiss explorers have begun a mission to circumnavigate the globe via air and sun. A take-off twelve years in the making, the experimental Solar Impulse 2 plane left Abu Dhabi at 7:12 a.m. local time, bound for Muscat, Oman, on the first leg in a journey that will require 25 days in the air spread over a period of roughly 5 months."

Title: Re: Solar Impulse 2 round-the-world sun-powered flight
Post by: Ric Gillespie on March 09, 2015, 09:30:21 AM

Well, in 1911 the first transcontinental flight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcontinental_flight_across_the_United_States) took about three months and 70 stops.

Title: Re: Solar Impulse 2 round-the-world sun-powered flight
Post by: Martin X. Moleski, SJ on March 09, 2015, 10:26:12 AM

Quote from: Ric Gillespie on March 09, 2015, 09:30:21 AM

Well, in 1911 the first transcontinental flight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcontinental_flight_across_the_United_States) took about three months and 70 stops.

I think I read a whole book about the  flight of the "Vin Fiz." 

Calbraith Perry Rodgers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calbraith_Perry_Rodgers) died in a crash within a few months of completing his journey.