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Thursday, July 08, 2010 08:52:12 PM,
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Payerne
(Switzerland): An experimental solar-powered plane landed
safely on Thursday after completing its first 24-hour test flight,
proving that the aircraft can collect enough energy from the sun
during the day to stay aloft all night.
Pilot Andre Borschberg eased the Solar Impulse onto the runway at
Payerne airfield about 50 kilometers southwest of the Swiss capital
Bern at exactly 9 a.m. here on Thursday.
Helpers rushed to stabilize the pioneering plane as it touched down,
ensuring that its massive 207-foot wingspan didn’t scrape the ground
and topple the craft.
The record feat completes seven years of planning and brings the
Swiss-led project one step closer to its goal of circling the globe
using only energy from the sun.
“We achieved more than we wanted. Everybody is extremely happy,”
Borschberg told reporters after landing.
Previous flights included a brief “flea hop” and a longer airborne
test earlier this year, but this week’s attempt was described as a
“milestone” by the team.
The team says it has now demonstrated that the single-seat plane can
theoretically stay in the air indefinitely, recharging its depleted
batteries using 12,000 solar cells and nothing but the rays of the
sun during the day.
But while the team says this proves that emissions-free air travel
is possible, it doesn’t see solar technology replacing conventional
jet propulsion any time soon.
Instead, the project’s overarching purpose is to test and promote
new energy-efficient technologies.
Project co-founder Bertrand Piccard, himself a record-breaking
balloonist, said many people had been skeptical that renewable
energy could ever be used to take a man into the air and keep him
there.
“There is a before and after in terms of what people have to believe
and understand about renewable energies,” Piccard said, adding that
the flight was proof new technologies can help break society’s
dependence on fossil fuels.
The team will now set its sights on an Atlantic crossing, before
attempting a round-the-world flight in 2013, making only five stops
along the way.
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