RTW Solar Impulse 2

[Kilo-Bravo]

Surely the most remarkable adventure in this century is the RTW-Flight of swiss made Solar Impulse 2, operating without a single drop of Kerosine or Gas.
The 2.300 kg Solar Impulse 2 is propelled by 4 x 17.5 hp electric-motors powered by the endless energy of the sun, collected during daytime by 17.248 Solar-Cells and stored in Lithium Accu-Packs for the night.
The RTW-Flight is divided into 12 independent flight-segments with planned endurance-time between one and five days lasting flights.

Two of the 12 segments have already been performed without any problems, 10 more flights must be done. The complete RTW-journey lasts until July - August, depending on wether-conditions during spring and summer 2015 at the northern hemisphere.

UL-Segelflug.de has just started a new blog-series about the outstanding solar-project. The "Kickstart-Blog", describing the adventure in details can be read via the following link: http://www.ul-segelflug.de/blog/rtw-solar-impulse-2.html

Estimate departure for next flight-operation is March 18th, ETD 00:30 UTC / ETA 14:00 UTC.

All flights can be monitored via Flight-Tracker and/or Live-TV and all flights will be accompanied by blogs at UL-Segelflug.de/blog/rtw-solar-impulse-2.html.

Best regards from Germany
Klaus

[Dan Marotta]

Why don't they do it non-stop, like the Voyager?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager Sure the Voyager used
gasoline but it had to carry all of it along with food, water, and other
essentials. And they did it in days rather than seasons. With lithium
batteries and solar cells, what's to stop them? And frankly, what's the
use of either?

On 3/16/2015 2:29 AM, Kilo-Bravo wrote:
> Surely the most remarkable adventure in this century is the RTW-Flight of swiss made Solar Impulse 2, operating without a single drop of Kerosine or Gas.
> The 2.300 kg Solar Impulse 2 is propelled by 4 x 17.5 hp electric-motors powered by the endless energy of the sun, collected during daytime by 17.248 Solar-Cells and stored in Lithium Accu-Packs for the night.
> The RTW-Flight is divided into 12 independent flight-segments with planned endurance-time between one and five days lasting flights.
>
> Two of the 12 segments have already been performed without any problems, 10 more flights must be done. The complete RTW-journey lasts until July - August, depending on wether-conditions during spring and summer 2015 at the northern hemisphere.
>
> UL-Segelflug.de has just started a new blog-series about the outstanding solar-project. The "Kickstart-Blog", describing the adventure in details can be read via the following link: http://www.ul-segelflug.de/blog/rtw-solar-impulse-2.html
>
> Estimate departure for next flight-operation is March 18th, ETD 00:30 UTC / ETA 14:00 UTC.
>
> All flights can be monitored via Flight-Tracker and/or Live-TV and all flights will be accompanied by blogs at UL-Segelflug.de/blog/rtw-solar-impulse-2.html.
>
> Best regards from Germany
> Klaus

--
Dan Marotta

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On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 8:16:51 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
> Why don't they do it non-stop, like the Voyager?* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager*
> Sure the Voyager used gasoline but it had to carry all of it along
> with food, water, and other essentials.* And they did it in days
> rather than seasons.* With lithium batteries and solar cells, what's
> to stop them?* And frankly, what's the use of either?
>
>
>
>
> On 3/16/2015 2:29 AM, Kilo-Bravo wrote:
>
>
>
> Surely the most remarkable adventure in this century is the RTW-Flight of swiss made Solar Impulse 2, operating without a single drop of Kerosine or Gas.
> The 2.300 kg Solar Impulse 2 is propelled by 4 x 17.5 hp electric-motors powered by the endless energy of the sun, collected during daytime by 17.248 Solar-Cells and stored in Lithium Accu-Packs for the night.
> The RTW-Flight is divided into 12 independent flight-segments with planned endurance-time between one and five days lasting flights.
>
> Two of the 12 segments have already been performed without any problems, 10 more flights must be done. The complete RTW-journey lasts until July - August, depending on wether-conditions during spring and summer 2015 at the northern hemisphere.
>
> UL-Segelflug.de has just started a new blog-series about the outstanding solar-project. The "Kickstart-Blog", describing the adventure in details can be read via the following link: http://www.ul-segelflug.de/blog/rtw-solar-impulse-2.html
>
> Estimate departure for next flight-operation is March 18th, ETD 00:30 UTC / ETA 14:00 UTC.
>
> All flights can be monitored via Flight-Tracker and/or Live-TV and all flights will be accompanied by blogs at UL-Segelflug.de/blog/rtw-solar-impulse-2.html.
>
> Best regards from Germany
> Klaus
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Dan Marotta

Not taking anything away from the Voyager, but "sure it used gasoline", and "what's the use of either" solar cells and lithium batteries ??? I guess if you don't get it, you don't get it.

[Eric Greenwell[_4_]]

Dan Marotta wrote on 3/16/2015 8:16 AM:
> Why don't they do it non-stop, like the Voyager?�
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager� Sure the Voyager used
> gasoline but it had to carry all of it along with food, water, and other
> essentials.� And they did it in days rather than seasons.� With lithium
> batteries and solar cells, what's to stop them?� And frankly, what's the
> use of either?

They are explorers, Dan, just like Rutan in the Voyager, both pushing
the envelope, but in different aircraft, with different problems and
different solutions.

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to
email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorgliders/publications/download-the-guide-1
- "Transponders in Sailplanes - Feb/2010" also ADS-B, PCAS, Flarm
http://tinyurl.com/yb3xywl

[Andy Blackburn[_3_]]

On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 1:29:20 AM UTC-7, Kilo-Bravo wrote:

> Surely the most remarkable adventure in this century is the RTW-Flight of swiss made Solar Impulse 2, operating without a single drop of Kerosine or Gas.


Well, there are still 85 years to go in this century to beat it...

[Kilo-Bravo]

Am Dienstag, 17. März 2015 06:00:20 UTC+1 schrieb Andy Blackburn:
> On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 1:29:20 AM UTC-7, Kilo-Bravo wrote:
>
> > Surely the most remarkable adventure in this century is the RTW-Flight of swiss made Solar Impulse 2, operating without a single drop of Kerosine or Gas.
>
>
> Well, there are still 85 years to go in this century to beat it...

Hi Andy,

I fully agree with you, that there are still another 85 years to the year 2100.
Lots of things can happen in this time and sure, this RTW in 12 segments by a solar-powered airplane can be beaten several times by more advanced ideas and constructions.
But would it not be very sad, if this would not happen? Not been beaten within the present century would mean a "technical stand-still" and no further innovation and progress in aviation and other important technologies! The basic idea of Bertrand Piccard was indeed, to do a kick-start, demonstrating to the people of the world, whats possible with the clean power of the sun.