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After a nine-month delay for repairs in Hawaii, the Solar Impulse round-the-world flight attempt resumed with a two-day, 14h flight to NASAs Moffett Field, near San Francisco. This ninth leg of a bid to circle the world on solar power alone followed a five-day/five-night flight from Japan last July, which set solar
stanley becher -powered endurance records but destroyed the single-pilot aircrafts batteries.Solar Impulse 2 manages a 24h flight cycle by ascending to 28,000ft during
stanley cup daylight and gradually descending overnight as its batteries run down. During the Japan-Hawaii flight, the batteries overheated while charging.The aircraft has a wingspan of 72m 236ft 鈥?a Boeing 747-8I measures 68.5m 鈥?but weighs a mere 2,300kg 5,071lb including the lithium batteries and solar cells. It flies at speeds of 27-54kt 50-100 km/h .The Switzerland-based project 鈥?described by creators and co-pilots Andr茅 Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard, who flew the leg to Moffett, as a demonstration of energy efficiency technology rather than a pure aviation challenge 鈥?will resume with a multi-leg hop to New York before crossing the Atlantic to return to Abu Dhabi, where the flight began in March 2015.Source: FlightGlobalTopicsBusiness JetsGeneral aviation Related articles News
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Rumford Hospital will close its maternity unit at the end of March.Hospital officials cited a declining birth rate and a severe and persistent shortage of obstetricians willing to practice in the area as reasons for the decision.They said maternity patients can travel to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston to deliver babies, which is roughly an hour away.Officials said the closure of the maternity unit, which has been in existence for nearly 100 ye
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stanley quencher osses.Rumford is the latest Maine hospital to discontinue maternity care. Last year, St. Mary Hospital in Lewiston closed its unit and shifted staff
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