The plane has around 13000 solar cells along
its wing which collects and stores the energy
from m the sun which in turn help power the
plane to take flight. The body of the plane
is made by carbon fiber, which helps it in flying
easily; because of the light weight of the carbon
fiber .the plane has four engines and is a single
seated. It has recorded the highest flight by
a solar powered plane.
The Europeans believe
that they will be able to make a round trip
across the world on this plane. The successful
solar technology has opens up a lot in other
areas than direct flight, such as long term
orbiting satellites for instance, that can go
up for pennies on the dollar compared to current
efforts. However, more test are to be carried
out on this plane till t becomes, almost perfect,
the engineers now hope of improving its technology
and building a better, more modified plane.
Previously the plane made certain errors on
its flight and one or more of the solar plates
were destroyed but this time the flight was
made successful and it landed safely and easily
in Switzerland after flying through out the
night.
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