The gigantic, but ultra-lightweight dimensions of this revolutionary airplane - capable of flying day and night without fuel - are its trademark feature. To build it, the whole team had to push back the frontiers of knowledge in materials science, energy management and the man-machine interface.
Flight facts:
- Pilot: André Borschberg
- Final destination: Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco.
- Intermediary stop: technical stopover, and change of pilot (Bertrand Piccard), in Madrid for minimum three days.
- Scheduled departure: Payerne airfield (Switzerland) at 06:45am (UTC+2).
- Route: Crossing the border into France via Jura at 3’600 meters. At Redoz (France), mounting to an altitude up to 8’500 meters crossing first the Massif Central and then the Pyrenees into Spain.
- Scheduled landing: Madrid-Barajas airport around 02:00am (UTC+2), Friday 25 May.
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