Comments on: Final Flight For Solar Impulse On July 6 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/04/final-flight-for-solar-impulse-on-july-6/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Bryan Allen http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/04/final-flight-for-solar-impulse-on-july-6/#comment-169788 Fri, 05 Jul 2013 17:47:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=53588#comment-169788 The final flight of Solar Impulse will bring to an end the SECOND flight of a solar-powered airplane across the USA, since the first such flight was accomplished twenty-three years ago by Eric Raymond in Sunseeker.

The Google Hangout will be interesting, to see if the conversation is dominated by those who know little about solar-powered flight and who offer comparisons to the Wright Brothers and Lindberg, or whether there is some honest, informed, and skeptical discussion about the comparative merits of Solar Impulse as compared to Sunseeker or the even earlier Solar Challenger, a 205-pound carbon-fiber wonder of an airplane flown in 1981 on pure solar power with no onboard batteries.

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The final flight of HB-SIA Solar Impulse is scheduled to take place on July 6. The solar-powered airplane of Swiss pioneers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg will fly to New York for the fifth and last leg of its Across America mission flights on Saturday, July 6 which began on May 3 in San Francisco. Piccard and Borschberg have taken turns in the single-seat cockpit with stopovers in Phoenix, Dallas, St. Louis, and Cincinnati.

With André Borschberg at the controls, Solar Impulse will take off from Washington Dulles International Airport at around 5 am EDT with an estimated landing time in New York John F. Kennedy International Airport at 2 am EDT on Sunday, July 7. Solar Impulse’s travel Across America serves to inspire a broader use of electric technologies.

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