{"id":3653,"date":"2015-06-30T22:54:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T22:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2015-06-30T22:56:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T22:56:36","slug":"solar-impulse-ocean-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/solar-impulse-ocean-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Impulse Ocean Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ocean Crossing To Hawaii : the Moment of Truth.<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3657\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/solar-impulse-sunset-300x109.jpg\" alt=\"solar impulse sunset\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/solar-impulse-sunset-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/solar-impulse-sunset.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Will the third time be lucky?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Endeavoring to reach Hawaii from Japan to encourage the use of clean technologies (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureisclean.org\/?utm_source=site&amp;utm_medium=textintro&amp;utm_content=logbook&amp;utm_campaign=fic\" target=\"_blank\">#futureisclean<\/a>), the solar powered aircraft of <span class=\"highlight\" title=\"read more about Bertrand Piccard\">Bertrand Piccard<\/span> and\u00a0<span class=\"highlight\" title=\"read more about Andr\u00e9 Borschberg\">Andr\u00e9 Borschberg<\/span>\u00a0attempts the longest exploration leg of the Solar Impulse\u2019s\u00a0Round-The-World mission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the controls, Andr\u00e9\u00a0will venture into the unknown. This <span class=\"highlight\" title=\"read more about flight\">flight<\/span> is demanding and\u00a0challenging particularly given its duration: 120 hours on solar power only. It is a\u00a0feat never accomplished before in the world of aviation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Click here to follow their flight <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarimpulse.com\/leg-8-from-Nagoya-to-Hawaii\" target=\"_blank\">Solar Impulse<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maxcraft Avionics<\/a>\u00a0is a leader in airplane and helicopter avionic system upgrades, including installation of everything from basic VHF Radios and flight instruments, all the way to sophisticated\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/product\" target=\"_blank\">GPS,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/product\" target=\"_blank\">TCAS, EFIS, and\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/product\" target=\"_blank\">glass cockpit systems<\/a>. We have the largest avionics facility\u00a0in Canada and over 20,000 unique part numbers in our inventory to repair your aircraft or upgrade your cockpit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean Crossing To Hawaii : the Moment of Truth. Will the third time be lucky? Endeavoring to reach Hawaii from Japan to encourage the use of clean technologies (#futureisclean), the solar powered aircraft of Bertrand Piccard and\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Borschberg\u00a0attempts the longest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/solar-impulse-ocean-crossing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[447,1013,15,1016,1012,175,37,41,741,49,1010,51,1011,121,1014,1015,72,739],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avionics_news","tag-airplane","tag-andre-borschberg","tag-aviation","tag-avionic-systems-upgrades","tag-bertrand-piccard","tag-canada","tag-efis","tag-flight-instruments","tag-glass-cockpit-systems","tag-gps","tag-hawaii","tag-helicopter","tag-japan","tag-maxcraft-avionics","tag-solar-impulse","tag-solar-power","tag-tcas","tag-vhf-radios"],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3658,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions\/3658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}