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Solar Impulse 2 completes a trip around the world

Solar Impulse 2 завершает кругосветное путешествие  The plane on solar batteries Solar Impulse 2 has started the last flight in his trip around the world.

Taking off from Cairo, he is expected in 48 hours I will land in Abu Dhabi, where to start and where to end with “around the world”.

Flying around the globe was launched on 9 March 2015. Aircraft operated by Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg. Aircraft with a wingspan of 72 meters and a weight of 2.3 tons of uses for flight only solar energy. His wings covered 17 thousand solar cells.

According to the organizers of the flight, their goal is not the creation of practical models of solar aircraft, and the demonstration of alternative energy sources.

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