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June 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “Mother Nature seems to be more favourable than the last time.”
An earlier attempt to reach Ouarzazate last week was foiled by rough
conditions but the giant sun-powered plane.
When Borschberg made his first attempt to cross the desert on June 13, he had
to turn round because of strong winds and turbulence near the Atlas
Mountains.
This was the final stage of a trip that has taken him from his native
Switzerland to Spain and then to Morocco.
Earlier this month, fellow inventor and adventurer Bertrand Piccard – who made
the first non-stop around-the-world balloon flight 13 years ago – flew Solar
Impulse from Madrid to Rabat.
It was the first-ever flight between two continents by an aircraft that does
not require a single drop of fuel.
“Our journey shows that there are other ways of saving energy and of
saving the environment and the planet,” Borschberg told AFP from the
cockpit of his plane, which looks like a giant glider.
At one point, about halfway into the final and toughest leg of the solar
plane’s trip, the craft was flying over the Atlantic towards the port city
of Casablanca at a speed of about 38.6mph.
Friday’s landing point, Ouarzazate, is where the Moroccan authorities plan to
build the largest solar power station in the world.
Speaking of his foiled bid the previous week, Borschberg said people “should
not talk of failure, but of experience. It’s training, you learn a lot of
things.”
The flight was described as the most challenging Solar Impulse has yet faced
because of the arid, baking hot nature of the terrain and the proximity of
the mountains, which are more than 9,800 feet high.
The giant hi-tech aircraft, which has the wingspan of a jumbo jet but weighs
no more than a medium-sized car, is fitted with 12,000 solar cells feeding
four electric motors driving propellers.
Ouarzazate is 340 miles from the Moroccan capital. The flight took more than
17 and a half hours, slightly more than the 16 hours they had estimated.
But the prototype aircraft has a slow speed and was to some extent at the
mercy of the unpredictable climate.
The flight has been jointly organised by the Swiss Solar Impulse company and
the Moroccan agency for solar energy (Mason).
Masen is responsible for building a power station with an initial capacity of
160 megawatts and plans to raise this capacity to about 500MW to 2015.
Last month, the solar-powered plane made the 1,550-mile journey from Madrid to
Rabat, its longest to date and its first between continents, after an
inaugural flight to Paris and Brussels last year.
The flights are intended as a rehearsal for the goal of a round-the-world trip
in 2014 by an updated version of the plane.
Source: agencies
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