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The author:(作者)qqpublished in(发表于) 2014/7/9 2:24:42 Does not need any fuel， the world’s largest solar-powered aircraft will sail，
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When a Hollywood film director who is still obsessed with the masters of science fiction of Jules Verne (Jules Verne) when fiction becomes a spate of box office magic, others are trying to turn it into a reality. One in the Switzerland team as the Sun of power (Solar Impulse) of the company, they took 10 years to create a largest-ever solar-powered aircraft, and hoped that in case of not using any fossil fuels was completed in 2015 first to sail. The botelan·pikaer (Bertrand Piccard) and andeli·Bo Xu Boge (André Borschberg) launched a project to prove to people that clean technologies the enormous potential in protecting the Earth's natural resources.
Critics initially refuses. In their view, even today it is still seemingly unattainable goals--today's solar technology is not the energy consumption required to support such a long flight, especially long night restrictions have also come across. Opponents and even sunlight power had done compared to Greece mythology "tragedy of Icarus", that is, in order to escape from the labyrinth, Icarus manufacture of wings is Sun dissolves falls are dead.
▲ Use hypnosis, meditation and yoga after rewrite the history of human flight, the world's largest solar-powered aircraft to fly
For botelan·pikaer and andeli·Bo Xu Boge, not at all. Two legendary career had been accustomed to seeing a variety of questions and invective. Portland, powerful, grandparents have been flying out to sea, in exploration and scientific achievements. While he himself was the first to fly a balloon landed without people who travel around the world. In addition, Portland was also a psychiatrist, speaker. An de Li is fascinated by aviation, he is the holder of several stunt flying records. Surprising is that an de Li graduated from Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT), management major, a former McKinsey (McKinsey) consultants. He also founded several companies in Internet and new materials.
Two joint look like had brought humans into the flight times of the Wright brothers. With an Deli in Portland as the power of the Sun, respectively, President and CEO of shared ownership of the course, as they take turns to drive solar-powered aircraft. In the past few years, and together they set a solar-powered aircraft flying through the night, Transcontinental flights as well as numerous other world records. Last May, with another two people driving their first generation of solar-powered aircraft pilot rotation is realized from California to New York, across the United States's historic flight.
They raised $ 170 million in funding for the project, and set up more than 90 teams of engineers to design and build airplanes. In addition, the project has also attracted more than more than 100 outside experts, as well as the participation of 80 of the world's leading companies. These companies from the aviation, chemical industry, electric power, machinery, watchmaking and other industries, including the Solway (Solvay), Bayer (Bayer), SunPower, Omega (Omega), ABB and Schneider (Schneider), and even Toyota (Toyota) and Google (Google).
On June 6, the new build of Sun power, 2nd (Solar Impulse 2) shortly after sunrise in Switzerland Payerne AFB taking off in the North, completing the solo flight of 2 hours 17 minutes and landed successfully. This means that their voyage to next year has taken an important step forward. This next-generation solar plane is made of carbon fiber material, with a wingspan up to 73 meters, wider than a Boeing 747 aircraft, weighing only 2.3 tons, representing only a Toyota road cars. Entire wings were more than 17,000 pieces of photovoltaic panels mainly, on four electric motors for machines with clean energy. Onboard lithium-ion battery weighing 633 kilograms, solar panels during the day will be filled with power to onboard lithium-ion batteries, for night-flying reserve power to provide an uninterrupted supply of power. Although the maximum flight speed was only 141-kilometer/hour, but the on-board battery can make uninterrupted consecutive flights a week.
However, there are still doubts and an Deli in Portland can complete the flight. 'S biggest problem may come from the middle period of ultra-long flight across the Pacific Ocean and has no landing point. Which means that without adding any fuel to the case, overcoming climate change, by a pilot, a flight of 5 consecutive days and nights. Yet no one non-fossil energy aircraft do that. Meanwhile, in order to maximize energy efficiency, cramped cockpit is not pressurized and heated, and at an altitude of 1800 meters could be as low as the temperature tolerance for pilot massive headwind was a great challenge.
"The adventure must go on. "Sunshine, Chief Executive of power andeli·Bo of the global entrepreneur, Xu Boge said in history every great achievement is the result of ambition and adventure.
Tracks
An deli Portland personal involvement of next year will no doubt serve as pilots and flight. An deli more than 190 cm tall, 60 years old, doesn't seem to fit to become a pilot. But he is obsessed with aviation at an early age have taken Switzerland's air force pilot training. "This is the dream of all when I was 8-12. "An de Li says, the most impressive is his first solo flight. He said: "when your flight instructor close the door says, ' now go fly ', he left. When you feel it is a very complicated mood, excited, and nervous, but also a sense of mission and sense of helplessness. "At that time, he was only 15 years old.
After 20 years, an de Li, has been driving the venom (Venoms), hunters (Hunters) and Tiger (Tigers) and other aircraft. He now holds various types of planes and helicopters professional pilot's license. When idle, he will do some tricks. Since he was 5, the international air transport Association world record-holder, including distance, along the line of absolute height, high gain, free distance routes straight away and declared in advance.
An Deli has been practicing meditation and yoga, exploring the wonders of yoga, which could help him in carrying out missions for a long time, and improve the ability to resist fatigue and stress. However, engineers, mechanics and thermodynamics of McKinsey consultants, investors and entrepreneurs is an de Li later appellation. He has founded a number of companies, including Switzerland Lausanne Federal Polytechnic (EPFL) a technical team together to start a microprocessor company innovative silicon-memory. An deli for social initiative. He was President of the World Association (WPO), Chief Executives Organization (CEO) and other well-known members of the group. An de Li is Tesla cars (Tesla Motors) founder of musk (Musk) friends.
When it comes to Portland's most important partner, an de Li said: "we both see the problem in a very different manner, but it is very complementary, and we know how to learn from each other. "Portland was a psychiatrist, and in general the way he wants to issue more intuitive; an de Li is an engineer and entrepreneur, relatively greater strategic vision. "We often help each other to speak their minds, and then put them all together for comparison. Eventual outcome is not his nor I, but the combination of the two of us. ”
They met in Portland after a hot air balloon adventure. In 1999, Portland was the first hot air balloon flight. When he was about 4 tons of fuel needs to be added to the balloons. Due to the shortage of fuel, Portland, an idea-can use renewable energy to make the flight. He and Switzerland contacted the Lausanne Federal Polytechnic University then found an deli.
Born in 1958 in Portland, has been marching on the three parallel Careers: physician and psychiatrist, Flight Explorer, full of passion, and orator. To increase our understanding of the "inner world" understanding, he chose to major in medicine and completed a double degree of learning: adult and child psychiatry and psychotherapy. In Europe and the United States have received related training, eager to hypnosis therapy could one day work, and later serves as Switzerland medical hypnosis Association of teachers and supervisors.
From childhood, he was so fond of human behavior in extreme environments, and passion is for adventure. In the 1970 of the 20th century, he was flying gliders and light aircraft pioneer, and in 1985 won the European glider aerobatic champion of the game. As a passionate pilot, he has had another ride in a balloon, airplane, glider and motor glider pilot license.
As a balloon pilot, Portland in 1992, the first trans-Atlantic balloon race with Hypnotherapy, won the race. Since then, he has launched "the Breitling balloon" project. In March 1999, he conducted the first flight without landing ride in a balloon around the world, and he and Englishman Brian Jones (Brian Jones) of the journey time and distance in aviation history is the longest flight.
Advocating humanistic values as the core adventures, Portland has slowly become an orator, well received by the public and corporate customers. Since 1992, he has worked in all continents in hundreds of private and public events organized by speech, became the center of attention. His life is compared to a ride in a balloon flight, to explore the inner psychology of motivation, risk, communication, and teamwork, how to deal with problems such as stress and unpredictable things.
Attempt to renew the Piccard family traditions, scientific inquiry combined with the protection of the environment, Portland made the driving does not fuel consumption, emission of solar-powered aircraft around the world, hoping to inspire people in the field of renewable energy and pioneering spirit. "The new adventures of 21st century humans no longer how to conquer the planet, but how to get along with it. "Portland said.
Collaboration
In 2003, cooperation with an Deli in Portland, officially launched the Solar Impulse project, started to develop the innovative aircraft. They convince the funding partners to support this challenge, induces the avant-garde ideas for a project, and outlines its symbolic and political prospects.
But they encountered initial difficulties are a nightmare. In accordance with their ideas, the plane does not need any energy reserves in the ground, and to achieve high energy efficiency. Simply put, its wingspan is large enough on the one hand, and can be integrated in the wing panels to collect more power; but instead it light enough weight in order to achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency. Their initial plan is to look for the plane manufacturers, but all give their answer is unanimous: "cannot produce this kind of aircraft."
But they still decided to give it a try. Portland to persuade government institutions and organizations, as well as many multinational companies is financed and began to establish their own engineering team. An de Li brought together 90 top specialists, encouraging them to join. These expert perspectives different origins vary. "We sought at all levels from different experts, ideas can inspire their creativity in different fields, giving them a powerful force. Gathering treasure trove of experiences inspired new original programs. ”
In addition to creative cannot lack the technology. Two people doing all it can to find companies with ability and industry cooperation, made out to get this plane. They eventually form a family of about 80 companies, you may not see their name, but focused on their magical effects together. The 80 companies, only two are from the community. Left more than more than 70 companies come from all walks of life, may seem irrelevant, but this collection a multi-country, multi-sector business so that their ideas can only be reached.
Headquartered in Belgium of transnational chemical group Solvay is the first participant of the project, the main provider of manufacturing "shinin" number of high performance lightweight aggregate materials needed. The company providing materials for more than 13 of the top technology, including the most important energy storage battery and cabin materials. Project's biggest hurdle is how to keep sufficient energy in energy density is 240 Watts/kg (108 Watts/lb) lithium polymer batteries. These batteries in four mobile pods, total weight of 400 kilograms (882 pounds), accounting for one-fourth of the total aircraft weight. Surpassed the previous high energy batteries to keep the aircraft achieve the goals can continue to fly day and night-flying for as long, battery, the more energy. "It makes us very close to a concept, was a perpetual flight. "An de Li said.
As another major partner, Omega group not only provides financial support for the project, but also to provide important technical assistance. For example, Switzerland space legend kelaode·nikeliaier (Claude Nicollier) design of the Omega instrument that indicates a flight path, traverse, and pilots are easy to read. Instrument display is clearly visible, and served in the air inside the sleeve, is equipped with a vibration alarm device to ensure pilots according to the instrument's key messages to respond in a timely manner.
Omega has developed a surprisingly lightweight landing light system weight-power ratio. Wing fitted with a LED landing lights on each side, through the attached lens enhanced brightness. Wing edge also installed an enhanced lighting. These lights are protected by sturdy shutters and shutters are manufactured by Swatch watches are made of flexible plastic. Enhanced lighting, shutters and landing lights, power transformers, connectors and wires with a combined weight of less than two kilos.
ABB and Schneider is responsible for the plane's electrical system, while France oil giant total (Total) solar manufacturer SunPower, owned by oil companies for its solar panels to produce the most excellent performance. More than more than 17,000 pieces of monocrystalline silicon tiles on the wing and horizontal stabilizer, and each is only 150 microns thick, they are based on weight, elastic and conversion rates (up to 22%) selected.
The power of these companies is that like to show their customers and provide this incredible energy efficiency. "It's not just humans challenge themselves and the process is more important is that such technology can achieve the kind of potential? Can we bring? If real 50% energy, that would be a really great idea. "Portland said.
This aircraft eventually presents some of the perfect combination of unprecedented structural and aerodynamic. Great wingspan as large passenger jets and very light in weight, like a small car. Carbon fiber construction, propulsion chains, flight envelope and instrumentation, all of which have been rethinking and design, so as to achieve energy savings of aircraft materials, resistance to high altitude conditions and the pilot's injuries, as well as weight and firm requirements combined with the purpose of the restriction.
An de Li is also the project's mechanical engineers and pilots to guide preparations for the manufacture of aircraft and mission. He said three years ago, in the course of an experiment, a beam of a damaged wing section is the most important. It took them a year to design, made in a year, process is very complex and is very costly. This thing huge blow to the team. "It was the most difficult time, you will begin to question themselves, but you need to quickly raise my confidence back up. "An de Li says, they quickly took this difficult translate into opportunities," we do not see it as a failure so far. ”
On July 7, 2010, an de Li's first-ever Solar Impulse plane flew 26 hours, it is enough to prove that aircraft can fly day and night only driven by solar. Since then, they leap in Belgium, arrived in Paris. In 2012 they should Morocco flew to Africa for the first time at the invitation of the King. Now, they had gone beyond time limit, this aircraft can fly day or it can fly for a week, even flying for a month.
But there are on the line with breathtaking moments. On July 6, 2013, Solar Impulse landing in United States John f Kennedy International Airport, which is more than a a few hours ahead of schedule. Because during the flight appeared up to 2.5 meters of fabric on the back left hole. An de Li was driving the plane. When staff found the hole in the ground, when Portland had been pacing back and forth across a room. He radioed an Deli and the call on hold, until the plane had landed safely. Andri said: "Fortunately, this question appears on the prototype, we still have time to adjust. ”
They want to build a structure is extremely strong, extremely light weight, extremely energy-saving is the most important of the aircraft, so that it can fly in a very low energy consumption. But also requires the strength of its materials and ordinary airplane. This is what the Solar Impulse project where the most complex and a real criterion for testing the purity of concept and purpose.
Although not the first solar-powered aircraft project, but solar impulse is definitely called a most ambitious project. Their next goal is to be completed in 2015 to fly around. Attempt the voyage will be the first in the northern hemisphere, from the Middle East Gulf set sail along the way, stay four to five cities. Once they succeed, will mean the history of aviation, for the first time there was a no fuel, but private aircraft can fly day and night around the Earth. The development potential of this clean aircraft have made huge contributions.
However, an de Li and Portland in no hurry to large commercial aircraft production that using clean energy, it is not their purpose. To put it bluntly, they don't need to think about how to make a profit, they just want to take this plane to be a laboratory for resolving energy issues and platform. For example, using the most advanced materials on this plane, so minimizing the emission of heat, in order to make energy efficiency reach the top. The aircraft battery case resistance of cryogenic technology now used in manufacturing the best refrigerator.
"We have to do is integrate today's best technology and to see whether we could get rid of fossil fuels with a chain. "An de Li told the global entrepreneur, he is now preoccupied with next year when you fly when you first open the cabin door is a kind of feeling.
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