Solar planes continue to cross the continent

On the morning of June 5, Solar Impulse continued its second flight from Madrid to Rabat, Marocco on a transcontinental flight of more than 2,500 kilometers. Do not use a drop of gasoline.

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In the first flight on May 25, Solar Impulse has crossed over a distance of about 1500 km from the military airport Payerne, Switzerland to Madrid, Spain.

At 5:22 am on March 5, Solar Impulse took off at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Spain, and flew at 3,600 meters high in the direction of Sévilla, Spain, and flew to the Strait of Gibraltar, European and African continent and a link between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.

Solar Impulse is expected to land at Rabat Airport on the night of June 5.

From the Moroccan capital of Rabat, Swiss solar aircraft will continue to fly to Ouarzazate, an area in southern Marocco, where the Marocco Solar Power Agency (Masen) will begin construction of a its large solar power.

The departure date for Solar Impulse's Ouarzazate depends on weather conditions.

Solar Impulse will return to Switzerland as scheduled, as is Ouarzazate-Rabat, Rabat-Madrid, Madrid-Payerne.

Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, two senior pilots and co-authors of the Solar Impulse project will take turns driving the Solar Impulse in one flight.