{"id":23817,"date":"2020-08-27T05:10:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T01:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=23817"},"modified":"2020-08-27T05:12:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T01:12:05","slug":"parachutist-makes-worlds-first-jump-from-solar-powered-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/08\/27\/parachutist-makes-worlds-first-jump-from-solar-powered-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Parachutist makes world&#8217;s first jump from solar-powered plane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A parachutist completed the world&#8217;s first jump from a solar-powered aircraft on Tuesday after the plane soared to a height of 1,520 metres (nearly 5,000 ft) over western Switzerland, Swiss organizers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two-seater prototype plane made the test flight in good weather and to promote renewable energy. Parachutist Raphael Domjan reached a speed of 150 kilometres per hour during his jump, landing near the project base in Payerne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Today there were many firsts but the most important is [this is] the first time ever that someone jumped from an electric aircraft. And this is something that is changing the future for this sport for sky divers,&#8221; said Domjan, the instigator of the SolarStratos project and who co-piloted the plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was the first time we did a solar skydive, I climbed with the energy coming from the solar cells of the plane,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, the team aims to carry out a high-altitude flight powered exclusively by solar energy, seeking to reach the stratosphere with an altitude of 20,000 metres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sky News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/VID-20200826-WA0025_001.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parachutist completed the world&#8217;s first jump from a solar-powered aircraft on Tuesday after the plane soared to a height of 1,520 metres (nearly 5,000 ft) over western Switzerland, Swiss organizers said. The two-seater prototype plane made the test flight in good weather and to promote renewable energy. Parachutist Raphael Domjan reached a speed of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-entertainment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23823,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23817\/revisions\/23823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}