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This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the Solar Impulse. There’s “On This Day”, some great music, and of course, the quiz. Just click on the arrow in the photo and enjoy!
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This week’s quiz: On 16 July, I asked you a question about the Solar Impulse, the Swiss solar powered airplane. The Solar Impulse left Abu Dhabi in March 2015 on an around-the-world tour, using only solar power. The idea behind the plane is not that solar powered airplanes will become the next wave in air travel, but to bring attention to clean technologies: if it is possible to fly around the world using only solar power, what does that mean for the potential of other clean technologies?
On 16 July, the Solar Impulse had almost completed its flight. It was late – months late, due to thermal damage to the batteries during the longest leg of its journey, from Japan to Hawaii. But it made it! Solar Impulse arrived in Abu Dhabi on 26 July 2016.
You were to send in the names of the two pilots who completed the approximately 42,000 kilometer first circumnavigation of the Earth by a piloted fixed-wing aircraft using only solar power, the Solar Impulse.
The answer is: Swiss engineer and businessman André Borschberg, and Swiss psychiatrist and aeronaut Bertrand Piccard. Piccard also co-piloted the Breitling Orbiter Three, the first balloon to circle the world non-stop.
The winners are: Manjoo Das from the RFI Listeners Club in Nadia, West Bengal, India; Pascal Ange Kabambayi Beya from Nairobi, Kenya; RFI Listeners Club member Abubacarr Singhateh from Serekunda, The Gambia; Tajnur Islam of the Friend's DXing Club in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Razia Khalid from the RFI Seven Stars Listeners Club in Chiniot, Pakistan.
Congratulations winners!
This week’s question ... you'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 28 November to enter this week's quiz. The winners will be announced on the 3 December program. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.
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Susan Owensby
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