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Solar Plane Travelling on Around-the-World Journey to Land in Bay Area
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| 4/23
Posted on 04/23/2016 7:32:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
you know, staring at the ceiling and looking to see if the vents are clean is more interesting than many of your threads.
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posted on
04/23/2016 7:46:37 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: dp0622
The solar plane and the j-shaped Korean cone- dude, if those things are boring I pity you. You have my pity.
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posted on
04/23/2016 7:49:09 PM PDT
by
ghosthost
To: nickcarraway
I’m going to take a wild guess and say this plane only flies in the daytime. Kind of limits any commercial use.
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posted on
04/23/2016 7:56:21 PM PDT
by
bubbacluck
(America 180)
To: bubbacluck
Nope, they’re crossing the Pacific in it. Batteries and gliding in a controlled descent at night. I suspect it’s a long night, I’ve heard about range anxiety among electric car owners. Imagine worrying about that over the middle of the Pacific.
To: nickcarraway
I say — Good job. We ,as a country have been on he edge. These guys are AMERICANS!!! Welcome them!!
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posted on
04/23/2016 8:02:48 PM PDT
by
WENDLE
(Remember Colorado)
To: nickcarraway
Pretty cool and it will keep the “chemical trail” nuts quiet. :0)
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posted on
04/23/2016 8:06:47 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: dp0622
You just want to see it fly over the Verezanno and land on south beach.
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posted on
04/23/2016 8:08:37 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(United we stand, divided we fall. I think the establishment has divided us enough.)
To: dp0622
Good thing you have a lot of dirty vents.
To: EQAndyBuzz
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posted on
04/23/2016 8:13:40 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/23/2016 8:13:57 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: EQAndyBuzz
Saw your home page. Could never move south.
I get hot when it hits 65 :)
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posted on
04/23/2016 8:15:24 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: nickcarraway
It’s supposed to have an airspeed of 28 mph. What happens if it hits a 35 mph headwind?
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posted on
04/23/2016 8:17:52 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
To: nickcarraway
So at night it is in a constant decent?
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posted on
04/23/2016 8:18:57 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: beethovenfan
Its supposed to have an airspeed of 28 mph. What happens if it hits a 35 mph headwind? I don't know, but probably they go back and forth like a sailboat going into the wind and make only a little headway with each tack(sp?).
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posted on
04/23/2016 8:26:19 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
To: central_va
It climbs all day and slowly descends all night.
Repeat the next day.
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posted on
04/23/2016 8:26:59 PM PDT
by
alpo
(Resist we much)
To: libertylover
Probably and African Sparrow could fly faster.
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posted on
04/23/2016 8:27:24 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: alpo
I’d think a blimp or some sort of lighter-than-air craft would make a better testbed for first solar trans-oceanic flight. That would take some of the clinch out of nights on battery power alone.
To: nickcarraway
I thought we already did this a long time ago.
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posted on
04/23/2016 8:52:29 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(The "college" snowflakes need to check their American privilege. Everything isn't a right.)
To: RegulatorCountry
I think they wanted to do it with a plane providing the lift. A gas bag would be larger and might get into the size and power required to move it problem. Someone already went around the world nonstop in a balloon.
First nonstop across the Pacific was in 1931. Japan to Wenatchee WA.
Took 41 hours. Single engine Bellanca. Two pilots. Plane was rated for 600 gal of gas and carried 900. Landing gear was dropped on takeoff so chief pilot landed it on the belly.
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posted on
04/23/2016 8:54:32 PM PDT
by
alpo
(Resist we much)
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