Landed solar powered aircraft in Morocco complementary first flight between the two continents using the sun environmentally friendly energy.
The plane took off, the Swiss Bernard Picard led by one of the founders of this project yesterday from Madrid airport, flying at an altitude of 3600 meters in Seville (southern Spain), and then cut off after the Strait of Gibraltar on the rise 8,500 meters for landing in Rabat International Airport after a flight lasted 19 hours.
A partner in the pilot project Andre Borcberg The plane proved their ability to fly for a long time, he told reporters that he can fly day and night.
The Borcberg and president of the Moroccan Agency for Solar Mustafa Bakori greeted pilot Picard when he got off the plane.
The plane made of carbon fiber does not consume any fuel, which is equipped with four electric motors of the strength of each one of which ten horses fed 12 thousand light-cell electric cover the huge wing, the energy stored in batteries, which allows them to fly through the night.
And the length of the solar plane is similar to the length of this Airbus 340, or about 63.4 meters, but the weight does not exceed 1600 kg, a medium-size car's weight.
The plane began to "Solar Ombals" project in the 2003 budget for the ten years of 90 million euros (18. 112 million dollars) with the participation of engineers from the Swiss company Schindler elevator industry research and the help of Belgian Solvay group of chemicals.
The aircraft first voyage in April / April 2010 and three months later completed the trip lasted 26 hours, a record for a plane flight solar-powered time.
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