Solar Impulse, deep water and a birthday

A new plane was presented this week. Not a Boeing, not an Airbus, not a Bombardier or Embraer.
Nope, a real visionary airplane: the Solar Impulse 2.

Read all about it here.

And this is how it looks.

Picture by Solar Impulse

The data are pretty impressive too:

Picture / data by Solar Impulse

I saw its predecessor once when it visited EBBR. What struck me was the speed (or rather the lack of it) as it flew by. With the Impulse 2 the aim is to do a non stop flight around the world.

About another flight(the MH370), I saw an interesting graph about the challenge of finding the airplane if indeed it came down where the latest pings were heard. Have a look here. One of the things that struck me was that it took 73 years to locate the wreck of the Titanic and if confirmed MH370 is in an area where the seabed is even deeper.

And I had a birthday this week. I received this card from twitter: I'm now a 4 year old twitterer. I don't tweet a lot but I do find it an excellent news source. Once you've found some key twitterers, you get news a lot faster than through the traditional channels (websites, newsreports, radio, ...). It's like being your own press agency. And you can also get the news from different involved actors which gives you in general a much better perspective on the event. Much better than what traditional newspapers/agencies provide you with. So thank you twitter for being around!