Solar Impulse has flown to Ouarzazate

The plane began by performing a flight demonstration over Rabat. A week after landing in Morocco, this first plane designed to fly without fuel or polluting emissions will fly over the future site of the first power plant of the Ouarzazate solar complex. In a statement to MAP before the plane's take-off, the Chairman of the Board of the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN), Mustapha Bakkoury, indicated that "this stage is the most symbolic, the most exciting and the most difficult, as the plane has to fly over the Atlas mountain range with risks of wind. Therefore, the flight will be slower".The cockpit will experience, for the first time, a mountainous and desert climate, a joint statement from Solar Impulse and the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN) had noted, specifying that "this flight will certainly be the most difficult the plane has ever performed". Due to the arid and…