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DonDeeHippy Gold Member Offline Cool Stuff Posts: 2782 Australia Gender:	Free Flying courtesy of the sun May 1^st, 2018 at 8:38am I love the solar impulse guys and I daydream a lot about the impacts these guys have, with that plane u could fly Melbourne to Sydney in 9 hours totally on the sun, what a wonderful way to spend a Sunday ? http://aroundtheworld.solarimpulse.com/adventure
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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 19459 Gender:	Re: Free Flying courtesy of the sun Reply #1 - May 1^st, 2018 at 12:19pm Yeah. One way, one person, no luggage. What more could you want?
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DonDeeHippy Gold Member Offline Cool Stuff Posts: 2782 Australia Gender:	Re: Free Flying courtesy of the sun Reply #2 - May 1^st, 2018 at 1:57pm lee wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 12:19pm: Yeah. One way, one person, no luggage. What more could you want? I bet u loved telling kids there is no santa
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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 19459 Gender:	Re: Free Flying courtesy of the sun Reply #3 - May 1^st, 2018 at 2:22pm DonDeeHippy wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 1:57pm: lee wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 12:19pm: Yeah. One way, one person, no luggage. What more could you want? I bet u loved telling kids there is no santa Nope. But keep trying.
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miketrees Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6490 Gender:	Re: Free Flying courtesy of the sun Reply #4 - May 1^st, 2018 at 4:33pm So could we have solar aircraft used for communications? Once they are up there soaking up sun above the clouds. Having enough charge to last overnight,,, oh.
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Reply #5 - May 1^st, 2018 at 4:51pm

After the 8 world records set by the Solar Impulse prototype, when it became the first solar airplane ever to fly through the night, between two continents, and across the United States, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg accomplished the ultimate phase of the adventure: the 2015-2016 First Round-The-World Solar Flight.

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Reply #6 - May 1^st, 2018 at 5:18pm

lee wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 2:22pm:

DonDeeHippy wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 1:57pm:

lee wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 12:19pm:

Yeah. One way, one person, no luggage. What more could you want?

I bet u loved telling kids there is no santa

Nope. But keep trying. Wink

I guess u would of said same thing about the write brothers too.
One passenger only 100 metres , what a waste

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Reply #7 - May 1^st, 2018 at 5:24pm

miketrees wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 4:51pm:

After the 8 world records set by the Solar Impulse prototype, when it became the first solar airplane ever to fly through the night, between two continents, and across the United States, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg accomplished the ultimate phase of the adventure: the 2015-2016 First Round-The-World Solar Flight.

It was 4 or 5 nights continuos flight between Japan and hawaii

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Reply #8 - May 1^st, 2018 at 5:32pm

DonDeeHippy wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 5:18pm:

I guess u would of said same thing about the write brothers too.
One passenger only 100 metres , what a waste

Nope.

A solar plane with battery storage; what would need to happen?

A larger solar collector, more wingspan. Many more heavy batteries. So much more weight and so very little (if any) increase in load.

Of course feel free to correct me.

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Reply #9 - May 1^st, 2018 at 5:50pm

DonDeeHippy wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 8:38am:

I love the solar impulse guys and I daydream a lot about the impacts these guys have, with that plane u could fly Melbourne to Sydney in 9 hours totally on the sun, what a wonderful way to spend a Sunday ?

http://aroundtheworld.solarimpulse.com/adventure

9 hours cramped up in an aircraft, to get only a few hundred kilometres down the road, fkk that

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Reply #10 - May 1^st, 2018 at 6:12pm

BigOl64 wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 5:50pm:

DonDeeHippy wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 8:38am:

I love the solar impulse guys and I daydream a lot about the impacts these guys have, with that plane u could fly Melbourne to Sydney in 9 hours totally on the sun, what a wonderful way to spend a Sunday ?

http://aroundtheworld.solarimpulse.com/adventure

9 hours cramped up in an aircraft, to get only a few hundred kilometres down the road, fkk that

It’s still very new tech, 100 kms a hour now, won’t be long till some real speed happens, better batteries, better solar panels, better planes, even now it’s faster than car and set up for overnight flight. I can see lots of grey nomads loving the idea of going town to town, explore where they want and no fuel costs.

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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 19459 Gender:	Re: Free Flying courtesy of the sun Reply #11 - May 1^st, 2018 at 6:32pm "The 2.3 tonne Solar Impulse plane is powered by 17,248 solar cells and 4 lithium ion batteries connected to the electric motors that drive the propellors." https://reneweconomy.com.au/solar-impulse-well-see-solar-powered-passenger-plane...
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Reply #12 - May 1^st, 2018 at 6:55pm

DonDeeHippy wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 6:12pm:

BigOl64 wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 5:50pm:

DonDeeHippy wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 8:38am:

I love the solar impulse guys and I daydream a lot about the impacts these guys have, with that plane u could fly Melbourne to Sydney in 9 hours totally on the sun, what a wonderful way to spend a Sunday ?

http://aroundtheworld.solarimpulse.com/adventure

9 hours cramped up in an aircraft, to get only a few hundred kilometres down the road, fkk that

It’s still very new tech, 100 kms a hour now, won’t be long till some real speed happens, better batteries, better solar panels, better planes, even now it’s faster than car and set up for overnight flight. I can see lots of grey nomads loving the idea of going town to town, explore where they want and no fuel costs.

Propeller driven aircraft are seriously limited for speed, so every flight will be a slow flight, and it will never get any better than that

Luckily the US Air-force and US Navy are working on synthetic jet fuel that will send this flying joke to the rubbish bin.

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Reply #13 - May 1^st, 2018 at 7:49pm

lee wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 5:32pm:

DonDeeHippy wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 5:18pm:

I guess u would of said same thing about the write brothers too.
One passenger only 100 metres , what a waste

Nope.

A solar plane with battery storage; what would need to happen?

A larger solar collector, more wingspan. Many more heavy batteries. So much more weight and so very little (if any) increase in load.

Of course feel free to correct me.

Umm the plane has batteries and flys all night, it’s already happened, I’m not sure what your saying.

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Reply #14 - May 1^st, 2018 at 7:52pm

BigOl64 wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 6:55pm:

DonDeeHippy wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 6:12pm:

BigOl64 wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 5:50pm:

DonDeeHippy wrote on May 1^st, 2018 at 8:38am:

I love the solar impulse guys and I daydream a lot about the impacts these guys have, with that plane u could fly Melbourne to Sydney in 9 hours totally on the sun, what a wonderful way to spend a Sunday ?

http://aroundtheworld.solarimpulse.com/adventure

9 hours cramped up in an aircraft, to get only a few hundred kilometres down the road, fkk that

It’s still very new tech, 100 kms a hour now, won’t be long till some real speed happens, better batteries, better solar panels, better planes, even now it’s faster than car and set up for overnight flight. I can see lots of grey nomads loving the idea of going town to town, explore where they want and no fuel costs.

Propeller driven aircraft are seriously limited for speed, so every flight will be a slow flight, and it will never get any better than that

Luckily the US Air-force and US Navy are working on synthetic jet fuel that will send this flying joke to the rubbish bin.

Ohh free synthetic fuel how awsome

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