Solar Impulse Solar Plane Made International Flight

More than a year ago, Habré already wrote about this plane, Solar Impulse, which runs on solar energy. Since then, there has been almost no news of him, apparently, the developers were preparing for new tests. And yet they got ready - as early as Thursday, this plane went on an international flight, which was successfully completed on Friday. The flight, made by plane, began from the airport of Switzerland, and ended in Brussels, Belgium. The flight lasted a total of 13 hours.

For this aircraft, such a flight duration is not a record, because it was Solar Impulse that was able to hold out for 26 hours in the air, setting a new record a year ago with aircraft of this type. Interestingly, when landing, Solar Impulse had more energy than it did during takeoff - the designer even joked that he could give out the excess to everyone.
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By the way, last year, during the same flight, which lasted more than a day, the plane used night energy accumulated during the day - and this test was completed with success.

Let me remind you that the plane itself is very rather big: the wingspan of the wing, or the wing - it has one, but more, was 63.4 meters, and the plane weighs 1.6 tons. The solar cells that supply the aircraft with energy consist of 12 thousand individual photocells. This year, the development team is going to make a flight across the Atlantic Ocean, plus test your plane for non-stop flights across continents.