The solar plane HB-SIA, with pilot André Borschberg, landed in Paris le Bourget on Tuesday 14 June at 9:15 pm after an 16:05 hours long flight.
This experimental plane in mid-May, successfully flew a distance from the military airfield in western Switzerland to the airport in Brussels. Andre Borsberg pilot operated aircraft, whose wings span 64 meters, which is close to a large model plane Airbus "A340"but only weights 1.6 tonnes, the weight of the average car.
The spacecraft has already entered the history of aeronautics in July 2010. when it performed a long flight of 24 hours without a break using only solar energy and batteries.
Prototype, whose wing covers 12,000 photo-voltage cells that feed four electric engines strength of ten horsepower, flew at an altitude of 3,600 meters at a speed of 70 kilometers per hour. The next goal of this project, worth 75 million euros,is making the new prototype that will be even bigger and wil have better performance.
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