{"id":652,"date":"2015-04-01T10:19:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T04:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nepflights.com\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2022-04-13T14:22:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T08:37:26","slug":"after-completion-of-its-5th-leg-solar-impulse-the-fuel-free-plane-will-be-flying-over-the-himalayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepflights.com\/blog\/news\/after-completion-of-its-5th-leg-solar-impulse-the-fuel-free-plane-will-be-flying-over-the-himalayas\/","title":{"rendered":"After completion of its 5th leg, Solar Impulse-the fuel free plane will be flying over The Himalayas."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nepflights.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nepflights-Solar-Impulse.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>A brief conference meeting between Team Solar Impulse and Team <a href=\"http:\/\/nepflights.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NepFlights<\/a> has paved the pathways for the Solar Impulse to fly over Himalayas and to land on Tribhuwan International Airport. In response to the Welcome Invitation sent from Nepflights on 28<sup>th<\/sup> March, 2015, Team Solar Impulse heartily accepted the Invitation and sent a letter of approval along with their presumed flight schedule on Tuesday 31<sup>st<\/sup> March, 2015 at GMT 10:41 AM.<\/p>\n<p>The fuel free solar plane, that started its journey around the globe( termed as circumnavigation) on 9<sup>th<\/sup> March, 2015 03:12 UTC from Abu Dhabi, UAE has reached its 4 destined location Muscat, Ahmedabad , Varanasi, Mandalay and has finally landed on Chongqing, China on 30<sup>th<\/sup> March, 2015 17:30 GMT. Solar Impulse, weighing 2.3 tons which is on the mission of being the 1<sup>st<\/sup> solar plane to fly around the world has a wing span of 72 meters and average speed of 70km\/hr.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> The solar plane is scheduled for its next flight from Chongqing to Kathmandu on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> April, 2015 GMT 1:30. After covering a distance of 656 nmi and flight time of 13 hours and 15 minutes, the Solar Plane will be landing at Tribhuwan International Airport on Friday, 3rd April, 2015 GMT 14:45. The welcome ceremony for the solar plane will be jointly conducted by officials from Nepflights and Civil Aviation Authority Nepal. TIA officials have confirmed for a public observation of the plane for 2 hours. The plane observation will be held for general public at parking space of Tribhuwan International Airways for 2 hours. After landing in Nepal and attending its invitation from Nepflights, the Solar plane will continue further again to its pre-scheduled path. As per to continue its pre-scheduled path the plane will first fly from Kathmandu to Nanjing,China on 4<sup>th<\/sup> April, 2015 GMT 1:06 and will fly from Nanjing to Hawaii as per its planned schedule, making its first big ocean crossing.<\/p>\n<p>We are overwhelmed to provide an open invitation to all our loyal customers for Welcome Ceremony of Solar Impulse in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>Happy April Fool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief conference meeting between Team Solar Impulse and Team NepFlights has paved the pathways for the Solar Impulse to fly over Himalayas and to land on Tribhuwan International Airport. 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