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achieving the first solar flight around the world this is the story of two men Berto pica psychiatrist and Explorer and Andre Borschberg engineer and entrepreneur a team driven by a vision of the future and a passion for innovation and the first airplane of perpetual endurance able to fly day and night without fuel together with their partners they wanted to show the power of pioneering spirit and clean technologies to bring solutions for a better world Solar Impulse the adventure showing that change is possible inspiring generations promoting innovative solutions to the challenges of humanity inventing a brighter future solar energy made it possible to fly many days and nights in a row without fuel crossing to oceans and remaining airborne longer than any jet plane in history 2016 has seen the completion of this pioneering adventure flying 40,000 kilometers around the world without a single drop of fuel like Solar Impulse the cleantech revolution has taken off presenting new ways of thinking and doing to achieve the impossible and you can be a part of it the Boeing 747 it opened up the world to long-range flight it carries millions of passengers per year along with millions of tons of cargo and it's widely regarded as the most successful large aircraft ever built but with fuel prices climbing higher and higher the question became could Boeing make the queen of the skies even better could the 747 become a model of modern fuel efficiency the 747 - eight is an all-new airplane that is really built off the backbone and the foundation of the iconic 747 to remake the 747 Boeing took the world's best performing large airframe and updated it with the advanced technology developed for the 787 Dreamliner in addition to adding powerful 787 type engines Boeing engineers developed an ultra advanced wing designed with complex curves and raked wingtips at one point during the design we reached a point where really concerned we couldn't form the wing skins into the shapes needed with our traditional building processes so we brought a team together that brought in a new technology to form the wing skins on the southern for 7-8 and it's been very successful with its advanced new wing and engines and a host of other improvements the 747-8 offers the lowest operating costs and best fuel efficiency of any passenger plane or freighter in its class in fact the new 747-8 can boast a double-digit improvement in fuel efficiency from the previous model the seventy-first 7-8 represents a lot of big milestones for the phone company it is the biggest commercial airplane that we've ever produced it's the world's fastest commercial airliner and it's one of the most efficient new large airplanes out there in the marketplace at the same time we wanted to create a really quiet airframe that also lands in the same airports and can take off from the same airports of the 747-400 in remaking the 747 for a new era boeing engineers showed that sometimes innovation means finding a way to make the best even better when you change the wing on an airplane you that you effectively are creating a an all-new airplane the result is a next-generation aircraft that sets a new benchmark for large aircraft fuel efficiency and noise reduction imagine a boat that glides effortlessly across the waves at three times the speed of typical marine craft getting safely to your destination with style and comfort the wicked works every shape is aviation technology and it's unique wing geometry and body structure exploits an aerodynamic phenomenon known as wing in ground effect an aircraft experiences when it in close proximity to the ground producing additional live from the increased air pressure beneath its weakest flying above the sea surface means that the air fish hate experiences no like making it fuel-efficient fuel consumption per mile than conventional high-speed marine craft at high speed classified as a marine craft and powered by a car engine running on unleaded petrol the air fish bait is simple to maintain and inexpensive to operate with a payload of 1,000 kilograms the air fish age cruises at up to 90 knots with a range of 250 nautical miles the air fish 8 is simpler and safer compared to conventional aircraft its inherent aerodynamic stability and mechanical simplicity not only makes crew training quick it also minimizes the risk of accidents caused by human error the a fish ate the land immediately with minimal control importance shoot the need arise the potential of the air fish ate is and limitless it is ideal for tourism transport logistics and even maritime patrol in regions where infrastructure is limited the air fish aid redefines maritime transportation with winging ground effect technology to make passage the unexploited places more convenient safe and fast 71 today remains this mysterious and enticing aircraft its its menacing it looks so sleek but really this is completely a form dictated by the function of the aircraft we had a need to know what was going on in other countries and the way that we were going to do that was having a photographic aircraft that could fly very high and very fast and much faster than the u2 which preceded it the sr-71 was that answer for the US Air Force and for the United States the sr-71 was a tremendous leap forward in technology in many different ways fighters at the time could go about Mach 2 this could go Mach 3 it could fly incredibly high now there were aircraft that could reach the height of the sr-71 but only in a zoom climb and only temporarily whereas the sr-71 to fly at level attitude at 80,000 feet or higher there was no other aircraft at the time that could do that it was a magnificent platform it was untouchable and yet it had not only photographic cameras it also had systems that performed electronic intelligence as well and it had a side looking airborne radar which was another sensor which was very effective speed in the 1960s was what stealth is today speed was survivability in fact the best way for an sr-71 to deal with the surface air missile shot at it was just simply to speed up there are some great ways to realize and understand just how fast the sr-71 was an sr-71 flew from Los Angeles to DC in just a little over an hour now imagine in that amount of time one would drive to the airport and maybe get your bags checked in and this airplane flew from coast to coast and little over an hour originally when the sr-71 was developed there was the possibility that it could be used over China or even over the Soviet Union it wasn't a used in that way largely due to diplomatic efforts but it was used in the dangerous skies or North Vietnam during the Southeast Asia war and it was also used over North Korea during the Pueblo crisis in 1968 and it was used in other places around the world the air force operated the sr-71 an aircraft that had a capability that no other country in the world had and the sr-71 could go get photographs and intelligence information that was desperately needed but that no other aircraft and no other Air Force could get for decades ago one aircraft rewrote the history of air travel she effortlessly accelerated from sub to supersonic speeds flying faster than a rifle bullet and out racing the Sun Concorde in 1976 it took three hours to fly London to New York it now takes eight concorde changed everything from the flight engineering to business flight and of course the world of luxury and style sadly Concorde one of our best achievements is becoming a distant memory save Concorde group in conjunction with our French partners at olympus 593 has been at the forefront of the preservation of Concorde with the main aim of returning Concorde back to flight as a symbol of our national heritage and pride scg includes ex concorde engineers who spent their lives working on her these same dedicated people are willing and able to see the reality of returning a Concorde of flight we strongly believe she must keep pride of place alongside our other flying icons while we can still marvel at the Vulcan or Spitfire where is our best aircraft of all where is Concorde there will be significant costs involved to get Concorde in the air but cost is irrelevant until the owners allow the fly the Concorde fleet are all young aircraft having thrown a fraction of the hours expected on a commercial plane and most importantly there remains no technological reason why she can't fly again