Posted on 04/23/2016 7:32:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Hardly, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg are both Swiss.
André Borschberg did go to MIT, but to the business school - to learn fund raising?.
It's also a pretty reasonable bet that the solar cells and batteries are not US-made...:^)
DH saw it come in over the GG Bridge.
“It’s supposed to have an airspeed of 28 mph. What happens if it hits a 35 mph headwind?”
It gets blown back to Hawaii.
Slowly.
Interesting that the Solar Impulse is actually returning to Moffett Field. It did a round-the-bay test flight three years ago TO THE DAY:
Solar-Powered Plane Takes Off From Moffett Field, Flies For 16 Hours
Well, NOOB, here's the thing. You can skip any thread that doesn't interest you.
As a respite from politics 24/7, a change of topic is welcome and a large number of Freepers are interested in this particular technological achievement, specially when the event is being covered live.
The landing in Mountain View is scheduled to be on line live between 11:30 and midnight PDT.
For those interested, here's the web site...
Think really really hard.
this thing has been flying in the dark since sunset in San Francisco, roughly 8pm local time or so. It's still flying. It's magic.
No, the one of a kind aircraft was never intended for commercial use of any kind. Just like the Wright Flyer of 110 years or so ago. It's called pioneering a new technology.
I did say it was a wild guess.
nick and I are friends and I post barbs at him. But others wouldn’t know that and I apologize.
You got me there.
It was a good one too. I never heard the dirty vents version before. And spiders. Dirty vents attract spiders.
“Hardly, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg are both Swiss.”
Bring back those jobs from Switzerland.
Coconut laden or not?
ABC reports they made landfall abd are in holding pattern over airport in CA
Sorry, but your knowledge of the mechanics of sailing are a little off. The air stream they are flying in is the same as the current of a water flow. You cannot “tact” into a headwind if the flow of the water is greater than your forward speed. Their “forward” speed is either generated by their own thrust or the act of gravity causing a glide. You may get a little forward speed in a sailboat if you cause it to sink bow first. But that would be of limited benefit.
Suggest you get ROKU. Added the new channels SKOPE and Animal Planet Live yesterday. Stayed up all night watching kiladascope patterns and a live Roach cam from New Orleans.
Some of the best TV I have seen in years.
lol!!!
sounds good if one is on LSD
i’m a city boy. Well, SI is more of a suburb but I still HATE spiders.
And I don’t have tiles and didn’t want to lie lol
Looking at them now, they do need cleaning!
Link to roach cam.
http://www.mangolinkcam.com/webcams/insects/cockroaches.html
I don’t recommend this one on LSD unless you are a Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” fan.
It must be sad to be born without any imagination or sense of wonder.
Or is it the case that you can’t miss what you never had?
Emergency Position Indicating Relocator Beacons (EPIRBs) take most of the danger away.
It’s not like when Amelia Earhart did it.
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