Progress of solar power generation

Rabat time 2065438+ landed at Rabat-Salle airport in Morocco at 23: 30 on June 5, 2002.

On April 7, 20 10, at about 10: 30 local time, the prototype "Sun Drive" took off after taxiing for hundreds of meters on the runway of Payne Air Force Base in western Switzerland, with a speed of about 45 kilometers per hour.

July 20 10, 24-hour uninterrupted flight was successfully realized by solar drive, which was recorded in the history book of human flight.

2011May13rd, Sun Drive flew 630 kilometers at 12 hours and 59 minutes, took off from paine field, Switzerland, passed through France and Luxemburg, and arrived in Brussels, successfully completing its first international flight.

20 12 At the end of April, the explorer Bertrand piccard announced that a large solar-powered plane-Solar Drive-piloted by him and his companions is expected to fly from Payena to Morocco, a North African country, for the first intercontinental flight in May.

20 12 on may 24th, Swiss solar-powered plane "Sun Drive" began to challenge intercontinental flight. The plane took off from Switzerland and stopped in Madrid on May 25th. After changing pilots, he flew to the Moroccan capital.

20 12 At 23: 30 on June 5th (Rabat time 5th), Solar Drive successfully landed at Rabat-Salle airport in Morocco, which marked the first transcontinental flight by an airplane driven entirely by solar energy in human history.

20 12 At 7: 00 am on June 22nd, the "Sun Drive" took off from Rabat. After a flight of 17 hours, it crossed the desert area in southern Morocco and finally arrived at the destination of its intercontinental maiden voyage in the early morning of June 22nd.

20 12 On July 24th, at 5: 00 GMT, the "Sun Drive" took off from Toulouse in the south of France, crossed the central plateau of France, entered Switzerland, flew over the Jura Mountains in the northwest of Switzerland, and finally landed in Payne at 18: 30 GMT on July 24th, which was the last stop of its long-distance flight across Europe and Africa. On March 28th, 20 13, the Swiss solar-powered aircraft "Sun Drive" project team issued a statement saying that this spring, the world's largest solar-powered aircraft will fly over the United States from west to east, which will be the last long-distance flight of "Sun Drive" before the global flight in 20 15. Sun Drive will depart from San Francisco in early May this year, passing through Phoenix, Dallas and Washington, D.C., and is expected to arrive at new york JFK International Airport in early July. "Sunshine Power 2", which tried to set a new record for solar-powered aircraft flight, was diverted to Nagoya, Japan due to bad weather.

The plane left Nanjing Lukou International Airport in China about 36 hours ago and was scheduled to fly to Hawaii for six days and six nights.

On Monday (June 1 day), due to bad weather, the plane hovered over the sea of Japan, and the team finally decided to land the plane for standby.

According to the original plan, the only pilot on the plane-Bertrand Piccard, a Swiss-must stay awake during the flight, and can only take a nap for 20 minutes at a time, sleeping 10 to 12 times a day.

"We're not daredevils, we're explorers," said piccard, another pilot of Sunshine Power II, who is monitoring the flight at the Monaco General Control Center. We must put safety first. Everyone is satisfied with the condition of the plane, but the weather conditions don't allow it. "