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广播听力:Solar Impulse 2 Completes 118-hour Non-stop Flight Over Pacific

Source: CRI    2015-07-05  我要投稿   论坛   Favorite  

Pilot André Borschberg was the man at-the-helm to finish up the "Solar Impuse's" nearly-120-hour voyage.

118 hours in the air has smashed the previous record of 76-hours of non-stop flight by late-American adventurer Steve Fossett in 2006.

"The demonstration of technology works. That you can fly almost forever with the sun."

Fellow "Solar Impulse" pilot Bertrand Piccard says they are hoping to capitalize on the record they've achieved.

"Because very often renewable energies are presented as a break, as an obstacle for development. And we want to show the opposite. We want to show that renewable energies,