{"id":16861,"date":"2015-03-09T09:53:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T08:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16861"},"modified":"2015-03-09T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T08:53:09","slug":"how-to-fly-round-the-world-without-using-any-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16861","title":{"rendered":"How to fly round the world without using any fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like seeing the world, but I have a low boredom threshold and I enjoy my sleep &#8211; so I would be a terrible candidate to fly an experimental aircraft all around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss pilots Andr\u00e9 Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard will take turns piloting a single seater craft called Solar Impulse 2 for 21,747 miles (35,000 kms) over 12 legs, including five- to six-day stints across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The entire journey will take five months.<\/p>\n<p>These two guys will endure roughly 250 hours each inside a narrow cockpit with no oxygen or temperature control. Temperatures outside will range between -40C to 40C.<\/p>\n<p>Falling asleep for long periods will be impossible as the flight will need constant attention. So Piccard and Borschberg will survive on 20-minute naps every two to four hours.<\/p>\n<p>But I heartily applaud the aim behind the journey which is to pioneer new efficient sources of solar power.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about the planned exploit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/mar\/08\/swiss-pilots-attempt-worlds-first-around-world-solar-flight\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like seeing the world, but I have a low boredom threshold and I enjoy my sleep &#8211; so I would be a terrible candidate to fly an experimental aircraft all around the globe. Swiss pilots Andr\u00e9 Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard will take turns piloting a single seater craft called Solar Impulse 2 for 21,747 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16864,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861\/revisions\/16864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}