Talk:Solar Impulse

message: Why? 71.112.4.204 11:27, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: See the AfD debate. - Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] :: AfD? 11:30, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Why?

message: I have just done a general cleanup, correcting English, tone, facts, and wikisation. I strongly suspect that material either from advertising texts, or inspired by them (the style of the empty sentences, the way words like "success" are inserted in the text for no good reason, and the usage of trivial words like "skin" instead of "layer" match the style of the advertisement of the general public).
Ah, and he first flight was by Clément Ader; no need to say not only unrelated, but also incorrect things. Rama 09:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Refit 

message: *http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/537/
*http://www.blazingwings.org/entry/top-12-solar-powered-aircrafts/ --Remi0o 07:55, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two related links 

message: As this is a project to build a plane, the specs are crystalballery at best. From all I can find, the design is not even finalized yet. In a similar vein, the "timeline" should at least be clearly described as goals of the project. Can anyone with more current information confirm the completion of the stages who's dates have past? Pjbflynn 00:25, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean is it possible to say that the project has gone through "Concept", "design" and "simulation" stages ? I wonder whether those working on the project could, even without bending these terms to match expectations in their reports. Only when they sart building substential will this have any sort of meaning. Rama 06:47, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specs should be removed 

message: Is there any public domain photo of the current aircraft?  The 2004 mockup (currently pictured) seems substantially different from the plane whose pictures are been in the media and on the project website. Owenozier (talk) 14:53, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I used in finnish wp this: prototype from 2008, but possibly there's in Commons search: Solar impulse other, even better pics :) --J. Sketter (talk) 13:43, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sold. Owenozier (talk) 14:59, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: The article claims that in the first 24hr flight, "the plane reached a maximum altitude of 8,700 m (28,500 ft) during its flight, the highest recorded by a solar-powered plane" and references a BBC article, which, unfortunately, is wrong on the counts of it being the longest duration and highest recorded.
Another BBC article has the QinetiQ Zephyr flying above Concorde at 60 000ft for 82hrs and is cited by Wikipedia article on Solar-powered aircraft.
I don't know Wikipedia policy on this, one would think that a reputable source has been cited, except it is the BBC on something technical.
Perhaps it was the highest manned flight?
JBel (talk) 14:49, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The two BBC refs certainly contradict each other. I suggest removing the claim from this article that it is the highest flight by a solar-powered aircraft as it is obviously not correct. - Ahunt (talk) 15:14, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Since the paragraph has been re-worked I have removed this statement as it is clear that the ref is not right. Even the BBC gets things wrong sometimes. - Ahunt (talk) 19:42, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added back a claim that this is the longest and highest manned solar powered flight along with a ref that makes that claim. I hope there are no other refs that contradict it this time! - Ahunt (talk) 12:07, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we're in the clear as the FAI credits the records to different classifications: Zephyr's U class record & Solar Impulse's CS class record - Infidellic 21:38, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Record altitude? 

message: I added a link to the guy (Martin Reichlin) who was writing a lot of the Solar Impulse web site  "blog" commentary, as it took me quite a sophisticated search to find out which Martin Reichlin he was and what his relevance here was – writer of the only ref to the hunch I had about the reason for the massive height they are going to, with all its cold and radiation exposure risks etc. I though others might have appreciated knowing some background to who wrote this, so included it as another inline citation, but this appears to have got swept away in the frantic activity around the 24 hr flight and article reorganisation. Any way of keeping it in the article?... or maybe here will do: http://www.solarimpulse.com/common/documents/blog.php?lang=fr?lang=es&group=media&id=50&comment=visible access date 2010-07-08. User:Ahunt was doing a lot of work around there. Cheers,  Trev M  ~  20:25, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup I removed that bit. I don't see who is doing the reporting as relevant to the subject of this article although it would be in an article on the reporter himself. - Ahunt (talk) 23:26, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commentator at Solar Impulse 

message: The manufacturer is the Solar Impulse Project. EPFL is the scientific adviser to the project, so I think the name should be "Solar Impulse", and not "EPFL Solar Implulse".  Unless anyone objects, I propose to move the page back to "Solar Impulse". Hallucegenia (talk) 20:32, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Solar Impulse will need to be G6'd, I've tagged it for that. - The Bushranger Return fireFlank speed 17:24, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

text: Of course, no objections. mgeo talk 20:48, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks to all who helped do this. Hallucegenia (talk) 08:40, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of Article 

message: I believe the "Solar Challenger" made the first international flight by a piloted, solar-powered aircraft in July of 1981. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Challenger 202.80.45.106 (talk) 05:21, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: First flight

message: Currently the spec list includes:
Payload: Lithium-ion batteries: 450 kg, (capacity: 200 Wh/kg = 90 kWh)
The payload should be the carrying capacity, not the mass of the batteries. These are a vital component of the operation of the craft.Ordinary Person (talk) 04:14, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Payload

message: This table paragraph is listed for the HB-SIB (Solar Impulse 2) but should be in the HB-SIA section which already contains the United States (2013) paragraph. The two are about the same trip and the HB-SIB was not even in operation as the article correctly states 91.65.104.32 (talk) 07:02, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right! I moved the section. Thanks for pointing out. Wild8oar (talk) 07:31, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Flight Across America 2013

message: I'm wondering if we need to include the UTC starting times in the table in the Detailed route section. It seems the only time it adds value is people can figure out that the aircraft stopped in Varanasi, India for 8 hours and 49 minutes.  The other stops have been a week or more meaning there's little value in knowing the UTC hour and minute of departure for each leg. --Marc Kupper|talk 19:25, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Starting times in Detailed route section? 

message: The article refers to 'engines' - but the official website follows what is surely the convention for electric drive in referring to 'motors'. I can't think of any obvious reason why Wikipedia should do things differently. Comments? AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:29, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Since nobody has objected, I've made the replacement - the article was inconsistent anyway. AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:59, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: That looks good.  Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 13:30, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Engines' or 'motors'? 

message: The article states Solar Impulse 2 
"On 1 July 2015, Borschberg broke the endurance record for solo flight, as well as the record for longest-duration and distance flight in a manned solar-powered aircraft. The plane reached Hawaii on 3 July, setting new records for the world's longest solar-powered flight both by time and distance, and longest solo flight, by time, for any aircraft without refueling.[11]
but does not state the records. The records cannot be easily deduced from the table.    
For example the end date/time is not stated.  Nor are the records flagged or marked in the table.
Please state the actual new records in the text and table. Thank you, 
--Jcardazzi (talk) 19:37, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a good idea to add the new records (time and distance) for the flight from Japan to Hawaii, which I have just done (especially since these are records that will not likely be broken for a while).  But it is not necessary to flag it in the table.  All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:55, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

text: I looked at this just now and thought about it, but I don't think it's helpful.  The blue links are shown in the first row below.  I think it would simply make the heading longer without adding anything.  However, see below. -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:42, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  state the records 

message: Solar Impulse 2 has just completed a flight from Hawaii to California. Here's all I have at the moment:
:Solar plane completes Pacific flight without fuel  
:A solar-powered plane successfully touched down in California Sunday, completing a two-and-a-half day flight without a single drop of fuel. The Solar Impulse 2, piloted by Swiss explorer Bertrand Piccard, took flight 62 hours earlier from Hawaii. The trip, which is being heralded as a major step in clean technology, is part of Piccard and his partner Andre Borschtberg's plan to pilot the plane across the world without any fuel. "It's a new era. It's not science fiction. It's today," Piccard told CNN. "It exists and clean technologies can do the impossible." 4/25/2016 e-mail "10 Things You Need to Know Today" from The Week magazine -- <B>☺</B> Dick Kimball (talk) 19:11, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  4/25/2016 Update 

message: The official website gives the distance for legs 10 and 12 as exactly the same, at 1,113 km.  Is there any way to confirm that this is right, or did they make a copy/paste mistake?  -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:46, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Leg 10 had an error on our side. I corrected this to match what www.solarimpulse.com is currently reporting.  I have an e-mail out to the SI2 people as they report a total of 43,041 km traveled while a sum of the legs is 42,438 km. It's a little awkward at present as I added the table row with the totals using the sum of the columns while the SI2 people are reporting something that's 603 km higher. Someone doing fact checking likely will spot the issue. The SI2 people also are off by either one or two minutes on the total flight time depending on how you handle that number.  For verification purposes, I put the data that’s currently published on http://www.solarimpulse.com for each leg into a spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1miNLb9u9uS4Th3mfr3l1BHJPp0ltqFg0w0pCVMzL3EM/ --Marc Kupper|talk 02:43, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  Note that if you change distances, you also need to divide the flying time into the new distance to calculate the speed.  I've done that for the changes you just made. -- Ssilvers (talk) 03:33, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Distance: Legs 10 and 12

message: There have been lots of articles, over the past years, about the clean tech goals of the project, and also the actual advanced tech used in the aircraft, and some of that is reflected in the article.  Has anyone seen any articles with more description of the exact tech that was developed for or used in the project, and whether that tech has already been put to work in commercial applications.  And also, any articles with more description of other clean tech projects that have already been inspired by Solar Impulse, or any other concrete and specific impacts of the project?  -- Ssilvers (talk) 09:15, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean technology and awareness used in or inspired by the project

message: Would anyone be able to create a comparison image of the two Solar Impulse aircraft with :File:Giant_planes_comparison_-_Updated.svg? Here's good source: http://discovermagazine.com/~/media/Images/Issues/2014/June/solar-impulse-graphic.jpg?mw=9999 from http://discovermagazine.com/2014/june/13-light-makes-flight . I haven't been able to find a side elevation, though. Thanks, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 11:49, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plan and elevation diagrams 

message: Hello, I am Jeremy Lovey, the content and community manager for Solar Impulse. I wanted to follow the community’s direction before making any factual/verified updates to this page and that of our pilots, so will be posting a series of “Talk Notes.” I would appreciate your thoughts on how to best move forward.  
First, on the Solar Impulse page there are a few inaccuracy and wanted to check before making changes directly: 
•	In line 2, it states that Bertrand Piccard is an “aeronaut,” which is the term for a military balloon pilot, I would like to change this to “…Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist Bertrand…” 
•	Under “Project development and funding” Peter Diamandis is listed as one of the organizations who financed the project but he did not do so – I would like to remove his name? The article referenced an article on the Solar Impulse website that refers to patrons, such as Richard Branson, who are supporters not backers.    
•	Under “Future unmanned solar aircraft project Solvay and ABB are listed as sponsors but that is not verified in the source. I would like to remove this portion of the sentence, “together with sponsors Solvay and ABB”
•	Under “Project Development and Funding” it reads as though Bertrand led the feasibility study, when in fact in was André. May it be rewritten to state that the vision for Solar Impulse was Bertrand’s, while the feasibility study was led by André?
Jeremy Solar (talk) 12:26, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I've changed aeronaut to balloonist.  The bit about Solvay and ABB has been removed as requested. As for the other requests I don't have sufficient knowledge for the removal/retention of Diamandis and the reference given for Bertrand/André leads to Solar Impulse's home page. Therefore I can't verify the claim. Not saying that your sugestions aren't valid, just that I am unable to tell for certain. Mjroots (talk) 10:47, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor, factual changes requested  

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