ABSTRACT
SOLAR IMPULSE AIRCRAFT
Solar Impulse is a Swiss long - range experimental, solar powered aircraft project. The project made two aircrafts which are powered fully by solar energy. It’s the first manned solar aircraft which is continuing its successful long journey, Round The World (RTW).
With ever increasing demand for aviation fuel to power our aero planes and its steep rising costs the time has come for us to find a more cost effective, efficient and eco friendly way to power our aircrafts, thus solar powered aircrafts came into existence. The planes have photovoltaic cells on their wings which gather solar energy thereby recharging the batteries that powers its propellers. The planes are so designed that it can fly even during the night time and can stay in the air for as long as 26 hours. It's a new hope both in the field of solar energy which is the future fuel and field of non-pollutant vehicles.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 6
HISTORY AND THE CHALLENGE…! 7
THE BEGINNING 8
AIRCRAFT 9
SOLAR GENERATOR 11
MODELS OF AIRCRAFTS 11
HB SIA 12
TESTS 14
SPECIAL ARTICLES 18
a) Carbon fibre tube 18
b) Primo Spire 19
c) Solef 19
d) Omega Instrument 20
e) Central computer 20
INVENTING THE FUTURE.....! 21
HB – SIB A SECOND AIRCRAFT 28
CONCLUSION 29
BIBLIOGRAPHY 30
INTRODUCTION
Travelling by aero planes has been one of the most effective and efficient means of transportation, even now it is one of the most preferred means of transportation. Aviation fuel, the fuel which is used in aero planes is a fossil fuel whose reserves are depleting at an extremely fast rate and also the emissions caused by such aero planes using aviation fuel is affecting our environment as well as our ozone layer. So the time has come for us to power our aero...