Solar Impulse 2 completed full tour around the world and comes to the history of aviation.

By Yam Wanders:

Image from Solar Impulse 2 team in Abu Dhabi.

Has just landed in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the Solar Impulse 2, the first plane powered by the sun to complete the circumnavigation of the globe.

Pilota this stage by the French Bertrand Piccard in its 17th leg flight that originated in Cairo, Egypt, at 23: 28h (UTC) on July 23, the full Bertrand commander feat landing now in the city of Abu Dhabi after flying 2500km from Cairo to an average of 30kt speed and even though nearly two days of flight without interruption, the aircraft still has around 45% of charges on its batteries, which give considerable autonomy to continue quietly flying to the born of the sun and thus ensure your energy recharge with photovoltaic cells installed across the top cover of the aircraft, so the only limitation to keep flying, endurance rider and respect for observation times for preventive maintenance in soil systems.

Despite all the safety of the aircraft that has an incredible glide ratio, security is complete by monitoring systems for mission control center in the Principality of Monaco, center the one with the necessary proprorções resembles a center any space mission due to this high level of local technology in aircraft monitoring equipment, meteorological monitoring and communications.

The achievement of Solar Impulse 2 was conducted with a total of 17 flight of steps, all designed with years of studies for the best use of various factors, including the main was good globe regions of use with adequate wind currents, low commercial air traffic and suitable geography for rescue in case of an emergency landing.

For the purposes of born technological feat in Switzerland, several employees among people, giants of European technology and volunteers around the world joined forces that resulted in this achievement of targeted human technological capacity for the use of clean energy that could revolutionize the world in the coming decades.

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