Jean Cai, VP Deutche Bank (China)
The plane, covered in almost 12,000 photovoltaic cells, has a wingspan of 63.4 meters, or roughly that of Airbus A340, and only weighs 1,600 kg, equivalent to that of a motor car. It is reported to be able to reach a flying speed of 70 km per hour.
A model of the Solar Impulse plane is exhibited in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, where the Deutschland-Chinesische Promenade program, part of a Sino-German friendly exchange event, is being staged.
The prototype is to be unveiled to media on June 26 at Dubendorf airfield next to Zurich, Switzerland.
The ongoing Deutschland-Chinesische Promenade program is part of the Germany and China Moving Ahead Together, an event jointly launched by Germany and China in 2007 under the theme of “sustainable urbanization”.
The whole event is scheduled to conclude during the Shanghai World Expo next year.
