#solar flight

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Solar Flight AD

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instead of the current solar aerospace contenders e.g. heart, zenith, prismatic, kea, etc etc I think there is great sinister potential for the name Solar Flareospace and I think it would keep us adequately alarmed in a nonspecific way

just like i feel on normal planes

(why ruin good anxiety)

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NASA Selects the MAGGIE Solar-Powered Aircraft for the 2024 NIAC Program

Since 1998, the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program has fostered innovation by accepting new and unconventional proposals from the sci

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Mandre - Solar Flight

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Solar Powered Flight Around the World

Solar Powered Flight Around the World

With Electricity Made by SunPower On July 26th, 2016, the Solar Impulse 2 made history by becoming the first plane to fly around the world using nothing more than solar energy. When the pilots of the plane, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, first decided to attempt this feat, which company did they select to build their photovoltaic panels? Their choice was SunPower, the same manufacturer…

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Solar Impulse Pilot: 'I Flew Over Plastic Waste as Big as a Continent'

Solar Impulse Pilot: ‘I Flew Over Plastic Waste as Big as a Continent’

The solar airplane as it approaches the California coast. (photo: Solar Impulse)

  Lorraine Chow | EcoWatch | Reader Supported News | April 25, 2016

s the Solar Impulse 2 made its historic 62-hour flight from Hawaii to California without fuel, pilot Bertrand Piccard personally saw the horrific amount of plastic in our oceans.

While flying above the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Piccard sent out a…

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The solar airplane as it approaches the California. Photo credit: Solar Impulse

Excerpt:

As the Solar Impulse 2 made its historic 62-hour flight from Hawaii to California without fuel, pilot Bertrand Piccard personally saw the horrific amount of plastic in our oceans.

While flying above the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Piccard sent out a tweet to Boyan Slat, the 21-year-old founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup.

“I flew over plastic waste as big as a continent,” Piccard wrote. “We must continue to support projects like @BoyanSlat Ocean Cleanup,” referring to Slat’s ambitious project of ridding the world’s oceans of plastic trash.

The Ocean Cleanup involves a massive static platform and V-shapped booms that passively corrals plastics with wind and ocean currents. If all goes to plan, the project will officially launch in 2020 and be the longest floating structure ever deployed in the ocean.

Marine debris that has accumulated in the Pacific Ocean. Photo credit: NOAA

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"Jeftuz - Solar Flight" by alaya.