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Solar Impulse completes Atlantic crossing with landing in Seville

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The zero-fuel plane, Solar Impulse, has arrived in Spain, finishing the Atlantic leg of its notable offer to circumnavigate the globe. 

The arrival in Seville denoted the end of the fifteenth phase of Solar Impulse's course. 

Pilot Bertrand Piccard gained quick ground over the sea in the wake of leaving New York on Monday. 

Mission administrators will now plot a course to Abu Dhabi where the endeavor started in March, 2015. 

The undertaking had would have liked to end the Atlantic leg in Paris, to resound the spearheading flight in 1927 of Charles Lindbergh. 

Lindbergh's Spirit of St Louis flying machine was the first to make the performance crossing.

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As it turned out, the figure this week in Paris was for tempests, thus Seville was consequently picked as the most secure alternative, the BBC's science reporter, Jonathan Amos, reports. 

Sun oriented Impulse has moved quickly around the Earth following restoring its test in Hawaii on 21 April. 

In 2015, the plane flew eight phases from Abu Dhabi to Kalaeloa, including a striking four-day, 21-hour leg over the western Pacific - the longest solo flight in flying history regarding the time it took. 

Yet, it was harm to its batteries on that phase that constrained Solar Impulse to then lay up for 10 months, for repairs and to sit tight for ideal sunlight length in the northern half of the globe to return.

Solar Impulse

Sunlight based Impulse is secured in 17,000 photovoltaic cells. 

These either control the vehicle's electric engines straightforwardly, or charge its lithium-particle batteries, which support the flying machine amid the night hours. 

The venture is not by any stretch of the imagination expected to be a layout for the eventual fate of aeronautics, yet rather a showing of the abilities of sun powered force all in all. 

Mr Piccard offers the flying obligations with his business accomplice, Andre Borschberg. 

The previous Swiss aviation based armed forces pilot will assume responsibility for the following leg, over the Mediterranean. 

Setting off from Seville will be less demanding than from Paris in this appreciation, said venture colleague Yves Andre Fasel who liaises with aviation authority. 

"In the event that we would have touched base in Paris like we wished, it would have been extremely muddled on the grounds that we would have needed to cross a considerable measure of airport regulation. 

"From Seville, in the event that we come North Africa, I don't think there will be a great deal of troubles - from activity. The challenges will be more to do with military reasons and things like that."

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LEG 1: 9 March. Abu Dhabi (UAE) to Muscat (Oman) - 772km; 13 Hours 1 Minute
LEG 2: 10 March. Muscat (Oman) to Ahmedabad (India) - 1,593km; 15 Hours 20 Minutes
LEG 3: 18 March. Ahmedabad (India) to Varanasi (India) - 1,170km; 13 Hours 15 Minutes
LEG 4: 18 March. Varanasi (India) to Mandalay (Myanmar) - 1,536km; 13 Hours 29 Minutes
LEG 5: 29 March. Maandalay (Myanmar) to Chongqing (China) - 1,636km; 20 Hours 29 Minutes
LEG 6: 21 April. Chongqing (China) to Nanjing (China) - 1,384km; 17 Hours 22 Minutes
LEG 7: 30 May. Nanjing (China) to Nagoya (Japan) - 2,942km; 1 Day 20 Hours 9 Minutes
LEG 8: 28 June. Nagoya (Japan) to Kalaeloa, Hawaii (US) - 8,924km; 4 Days 21 Hours 52 Minutes
LEG 9: 21 April. Kalaeloa, Hawaii (US) to Mountain View, California (US) - 4,523km; 2 Days 17 Hours 29 Minutes
LEG 10: 2 May. Mountain View, California (US) to Phoenix, Arizona (US) - 1,199km; 15 Hours 52 Minutes
LEG 11: 12 May. Phoenix, Arizona (US) to Tulsa, Oklahoma (US) - 1,570 km; 18 Hours 10 Minutes
LEG 12: 21 May. Tulsa, Oklahoma (US) to Dayton, Ohio (US) - 1,113 km; 16 Hours 34 Minutes
LEG 13: 25 May. Dayton, Ohio (US) to Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania (US) - 1,044 km; 16 Hours 47 Minutes
LEG 14: 11 June. Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania (US) to New York (US) - 230km; 4 Hours 41 Minutes
LEG 15: 20 June. New York (US) to Seville (Spain)


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