Solar plane Sunseeker Duo is flying through the Alps - and back Bashny.Net

While Solar Impulse 2 repairing my batteries and getting ready to complete a trip around the world in 2016, another solar aircraft Sunseeker Duo recently put your own record.



In July of this year, a single solar Elektra One Solar aircraft company PC Aero has attracted media attention by flying over the Alps in both directions during one flight. Although since 2009, President of Solar Flight's Eric Raymond (Eric Raymond) have repeatedly flown over a mountain ridge on the solar aircraft Sunseeker II.

In August of this year he made a flight there and back, and this time flew in a twin Sunseeker Duo, which allowed him to take his wife Irene as a co-pilot.

As Raymond notes, "the mission of our flight was in the stops and demonstrations of the aircraft in various airports."





Raymond started with his base Voghera, Italy, on 2 August, heading to the airport Torino Aeritalia in Turin. The next day, they went out in a negotiable point on the Swiss mountain the Eiger, and then to land at the airport Munster-Geschinen, Switzerland.

Adverse weather conditions in the form of low clouds and strong downward flow of air added a kind of call this trip.





August 7, they flew from the same airport and flew back to Voghera via the Matterhorn and the town of Genoa. The way back took only four hours, the plane reached a maximum altitude of 4545 meters, Raymond says they could fly higher, if not for the fact that the aircraft is not equipped with a dual oxygen system for breathing.

Sunseeker Duo has a wingspan of 22 meters and a weight of 280 kg a total of 1510 solar cells installed on the wings and tail of the airplane, collecting the sun's energy, which is stored in litte-polymer battery located in the fuselage. The jet engine has a maximum output of 25 kW. published

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Source: www.facepla.net/the-news/5160-солнечный-самолет-sunseeker-duo.html