Solar Impulse 2Round-the-world flight with solar airplane successfully completed
On July 26, the Solar Impulse 2 landed in Abu Dhabi - the last stop on a historic round-the-world flight in a solar-powered aircraft that began on March 9, 2015. As one of the technology partners, ABB was involved in the project from the very beginning.
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... at 72 m, the SI2 is wider than a Boeing 747-81. The weight of the solar airplane, on the other hand, is just over one percent of that of a passenger plane: at 2,300 kg, the SI2 weighs about as much as a car. This is thanks to ...