Madrid, 4 jun (EFE).-the “Solar Impulse” plane will take off the next morning (local time) from the Madrid Barajas airport to complete the voyage that began on May 24 in Switzerland and that will conclude in Morocco.

with the last stretch, its pilots, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg will achieve its challenge of flying more than 2,500 kilometers “without a drop of fuel”.

“Solar Impulse”, piloted by Borschberg, arrived at Barajas from Switzerland’s Payerne on May 24 local and he planned to have continued the flight on Monday 28, but his departure was delayed due to bad weather in Morocco.

If there are no variations and forecasts are met, the solar airplane will take off of Madrid to the 07.30 hours of Tuesday (05.30 gmt) and reach an altitude of 3,600 metres to point towards Sevilla, before crossing the Strait of Gibraltar at an altitude of 8,500 meters.

< p> Subsequently, enter into Moroccan territory and, after flying over Tangier land in Rabat early in the morning of Wednesday.

Piccard will be responsible for piloting the plane solar between Madrid and Rabat and will have to carry a special cold weather suit and a mask for oxygen, because of that aircraft cabin solar, which has the wingspan of an Airbus 340 and the weight of a van (1,600 kilos) is not pressurized.

Piccard and Borschberg launched this adventure seven years ago and the first test with the aircraft made it in 2009, while in 2010 the Solar Impulse made its first real flight and managed to be in the air 26 hours continued day and night without any kind of fuel.

Las 12,000 photovoltaic cells covering their wings collect solar energy and transfer it to the four batteries that comprise the device, which allow to fly the aircraft up to 5 hours.

the vliegtuigen, vervaardigd met koolstofvezel, is het resultaat van de samenwerking van 70 en 80 partners, en deze reis reageert op een uitnodiging van het Bureau van de macht Solar van Marokko, die de bouw van vijf zonne-energie parken tot 2020 voor het genereren van een belangrijk deel van uw elektriciteitsverbruik gepland. EFE