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The Sun Sets Off The Wings

The Sun Sets Off The Wings. By: Sara Peterson. Wright Brothers 1903 Propelled by a Catapult. First Airplane. Boeing 747 750,000 pounds 392,000 pounds of fuel Toxins put into A tmosphere CO 2 , CH 4 , N 2 O, NO x , CO, SO 4 , and Others. Aviation Today. Go Green New Resources

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The Sun Sets Off The Wings

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  1. The Sun Sets Off The Wings By: Sara Peterson

  2. Wright Brothers • 1903 • Propelled by a Catapult First Airplane

  3. Boeing 747 • 750,000 pounds • 392,000 pounds of fuel • Toxins put into Atmosphere • CO2, CH4, N2O, NOx, CO, SO4, and Others AviationToday

  4. Go Green • New Resources • Water • Air • Sun Environmental Worries

  5. Placed on Ground or Roof-tops • HEAVY! • Silicon Panels Solar Power

  6. Dryden Flight Research Center • Remote Long-distance Solar Powered Planes • 1981- HALSOL • High-Altitude Solar Energy NASA Project

  7. No emissions • Research Purposes • Hawaii Environmental Benefits

  8. Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg • New Clean Technologies • Beginning of the 20th Century Solar Impulse

  9. 208 ft Wing Span • 4 Electric Engines • 11,628 Solar Panels • Stabilization Augmentation System • Can Fly During the Night HB-HIB

  10. Flight Pattern

  11. Switzerland-Spain-Madrid-Morocco • Pilot: Bertrand Piccard • Records: • Longest Distance • Highest Flight Speed • News • New York Times July 2012

  12. Join The Challenge! FUTURE

  13. "The Boeing 747-100 & 200." Airliners.net. Demand Media Inc., 2012. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. http://www.airliners.net/aircraft-data/stats.main?id=97. • Cowell, Alan. "Solar-Powered Plane Flies for 26 Hours." The New York Times. N.p., 08 July 2010. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/world/europe/09plane.html?_r=0. • Dijakovic, Viktoria, and André Borschberg. "Solar Impulse HB-SIB." SOLAR IMPULSE. Solar Impulse, 10 Oct. 2012. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. http://solarimpulse.com/en/airplane/hb-sib/. • Dijakovic, Viktoria, and ElâBorschberg. "An Airplane." SOLAR IMPULSE. Solar Impulse, 10 Oct. 2012. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. http://solarimpulse.com/. • Dijakovic, Viktoria. "Solar Aviation." SOLAR IMPULSE. Solar Impulse, 17 July 2012. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. http://solarimpulse.com/en/airplane/solar-aviation/. • Dunbar, Brian. "NASA Dryden Fact Sheet - Pathfinder Solar-Powered Aircraft." NASA. NASA, 07 May 2008. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-034-DFRC.html. • The Editors. "Aircraft That Changed the World." Air and Space Smithsonian. Smithsonian Institute, July 2008. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/Aircraft_That_Changed_the_World.html. • Rypdal, Kristin. Aircraft Emissions. Rep. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/gp/bgp/2_5_Aircraft.pdf. Bibliography

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