{"id":6035,"date":"2012-06-14T20:07:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T03:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=6035"},"modified":"2012-06-14T20:07:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T03:07:29","slug":"solar-impulse-turns-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/solar-impulse-turns-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Impulse Turns Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 13 was not a good flying day for Solar Impulse.\u00a0 Hoping to finish this epic journey between continents, Andre Borschberg ran into stiff winds and severe turbulence.\u00a0 Although in the air for 16 hours and 6 minutes while covering 780 kilometers (484 miles), the flight did not make it to its destination of the solar plant at Quarzazate, but returned to Rabat after battling winds and extreme turbulence.\u00a0 Since the airplane cruises at around 30-35 miles per hour, its average ground speed for the flight of 55 kilometers per hour (34.1 mph) seemed normal enough, but didn\u2019t show the wild swings in groundspeed experienced by Borschberg, a strong contrast to the uneventful leg between Madrid and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Flight Rabat - Ouarzazate interview Andr\u00e9 Borschberg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2P1vOLL9TQ0?list=UUCSjLVJs5wD_BKaQqzXwyhg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At one point, ground speed was around 10 km\/h, or 6.2 mph.\u00a0 At another, ground speed exceeded 140 km\/h, or 87 mph.\u00a0 Unfortunately the good tailwinds were all blowing away from the destination and at 14:34 Greenwich Time (UTC) after over seven hours in the air, the decision was made to return to Rabat.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Solar Impulse Crossing Frontiers - Flight Rabat-Ouarzazate: Return to Rabat\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fdFMZFBiBBk?list=UUCSjLVJs5wD_BKaQqzXwyhg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Borschberg made a safe landing at 23:14 UTC, another night descent that shows the batteries on board are capable of keeping the craft aloft \u2013 even at the end of a rough and disappointing day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"facebook_like\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fcafe.foundation%2Fblog%2Fsolar-impulse-turns-back%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=500&amp;action=like&amp;font=segoe+ui&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:500px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 13 was not a good flying day for Solar Impulse.\u00a0 Hoping to finish this epic journey between continents, Andre Borschberg ran into stiff winds and severe turbulence.\u00a0 Although in the air for 16 hours and 6 minutes while covering 780 kilometers (484 miles), the flight did not make it to its destination of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[98,2338,2396,2397,2395,68],"class_list":["post-6035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-electric_powerplants","category-sustainable_ga","tag-andre-borschberg","tag-madrid","tag-morocco","tag-quarzazate","tag-rabat","tag-solar-impulse"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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