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Solar plane crosses the Pacific—at last!

Paul Heymont 4/25/1610:25 AM

Solar Impulse 2, an ultra-lightweight plane powered by 17,000 solar cells, has finished its crossing of the Pacific and landed in California on an important step in its round-the-world journey.

The flight, with two Swiss pilots alternating legs of the trip since there's only room for one aboard, took 62 hours from Hawaii to the San Francisco area. The first part of the trans-Pacific leg took 5 days from Japan to Hawaii and left the plane in need of months of maintenance.

Starting from Abu Dhabi in May 2015 and flying east, the project still has trans-America and trans-Atlantic legs ahead of it. For more information, from TheLocal.ch, click HERE

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