Rabat, July 5, (MAP)
Rabat, July 5, (MAP)
Sun-powered Solar Impulse will take off from Rabat at 05:00AM (UTC) to fly over the Strait of Gibraltar and into Spain’s capital city of Madrid, on Friday July 6.
Piloted by André Borschberg, Solar Impulse HB-SIA is expected to land in Madrid at some time after 11:00PM (UTC) on its way back to Switzerland, the flight’s organisers said in their website.
Solar Impulse made the world’s first solar-powered intercontinental flight when it connected Madrid to Rabat on June 5.
Solar Impulse HB-SIA is the first aircraft that can fly day and night without fuel or polluting emissions. It demonstrates the huge potential of new technologies in terms of energy reduction and the production of renewable energy.
This revolutionary carbon fiber aircraft, that has the wingspan of an Airbus A340 (63.4m) and the weight of an average family car (1,600kg), is the result of seven intense years of work, calculations, simulations and tests by a team of 70 people and 80 partners.
