France A named Steve – Rosen adventurer and his little friends made a just use of wind powered aircraft, flying over the Mediterranean Sea and is ready to complete the adventure when the end of October.
France A named Steve – Rosen adventurer and his little friends made a just use of wind powered aircraft, flying over the Mediterranean Sea and is ready to complete the adventure when the end of October.
Steve and his companions are hoping a kind of sea craft innovative, efficient and quiet at the same time to complete the voyage, only the use of wind power as a flight.
Aircraft flying like driving principle of an sailboat Steve, it allows the driver to control an airship like to drive it like airship aircraft on a cable is connected to a steady keel, namely an ocean glider on. Piece of cable on the role of aircraft like the mast on a sailboat, while the role of the airship like sails on a sailboat.
Steve in a sea southeastern France to do the exercises, he hopes he can hang on until the end of ten aircraft, and then complete the challenge of flying over the Mediterranean. Steve figure exercises to prepare for work on large aircraft to blow up the balloon and glider connected to the ocean.
In fact, during 2008, Steve is trying to use a blimp flying over the English Channel to complete the adventure, this airship is provided by pedal power, but encountered strong winds at the time of challenge in the middle, so he had to give up flying over the English Channel in challenge.
Steve hopes to challenge in the case of flying over the Mediterranean can be better, not like last encounter bad weather, or in the struggle between man and nature, man is always a disadvantage. If anything happens, attached to the aircraft Steve ocean gliders can also help.
If weather permits, the wind is not large, the aircraft can be manipulated by Steve himself.
Steve distance driving a vehicle in the sea is actually a nice scenery.
