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Solar-powered plane grounds in Myanmar on latest gam of global flight to promote clean energy
March Nineteen, 2015, at Four:26 p.m.
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Swiss-made Solar Impulse-2 takes off from Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, March Eighteen, 2015. The solar powered aircraft is Wednesday headed to the northern Indian city of Varanasi on the third gam of its’ historic round-the-world tour. (AP Photo/Press Trust of India) INDIA OUT The Associated Press
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A solar-powered plane landed in Myanmar on Thursday night, the latest gam of a round-the-world journey aimed at highlighting clean energy.
Dozens of trees had to be cleared ahead of the Solar Impulse Two’s arrival at the Mandalay International Airport for its giant mobile hangar and exhibition tent, said Taik Aung, the country’s director of air navigation and safety division. Towering shrubs along the runway also needed to be trimmed to accommodate the plane’s 72-meter wing span, said Corinne Henchoz Pignani, of the Swiss Embassy in Yangon.
The Impulse two has twelve scheduled stop-overs during its five-month journey.
Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg are taking turns flying the aircraft, which is powered by more than 17,000 solar cells on its wings that recharge the plane’s batteries.
The single-seat, Swiss-made plane left the northern Indian town of Varanasi early Thursday after several weather delays and flew over the Bay of Bengal and reached Mandalay at 7:50 p.m.
As the plane touches down in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, a band of hundreds of students played music and dancers performed a regional dance wearing elephant costumes decorated with gold and glass gems.
The flight has attracted attention from people who see solar power as a future source of clean, renewable energy.
Two other aircraft — an ATR seventy two and Ilyushin seventy six — were carrying equipment for the solar plane and a seventy support staff, said Soe Paing, a member of the plane’s local task force team. Myanmar’s government was picking up the tab for the 20,000 gallons of fuel needed for the support planes on the Mandalay gam, he said.
The Solar Impulse two is scheduled to proceed onward to Chongqing and Nanjing in China on Sunday. It then goes over the Pacific Ocean, landing in Hawaii and the U.S. mainland before flying over the Atlantic Ocean.
Some gams of the journey, such as over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, means five days and five nights of flying solo. But the pilots have ready for the exhaustive long spreads: Borschberg has been practising yoga, while Piccard uses self-hypnosis to quiet himself.
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