The Solar Impulse 2 (Si2), a Swiss-made solar-powered aircraft, took off at sunrise from Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on a historic mission to fly around the world without a drop of ...

The Solar Impulse 2 completed its historic circumnavigation of the Earth on this day in 2016, after a journey that spanned approximately 26,000 miles (42,000 kilometers) and took over a year to ...

The experimental plane Solar Impulse 2, which completed a historic round-the-world trip in 2016 without using jet fuel, crashed into the Gulf of Mexico recently, its owner revealed. Flown by Swiss ...

The SolarStratos plane has 22 square metres of solar panels on its wings – Copyright CNA/AFP STR Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan beat the altitude record for a solar ...

When Solar Impulse 2 returned to Abu Dhabi in July 2016, it completed something that had never been achieved before. The aircraft had travelled around the world powered only by energy collected from ...

On its journey around the world, Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) - after a flight of three days and three nights (71 hours and 8 minutes) without fuel - has completed its crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to land ...

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Aviation history is currently in the making as Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg attempt the first solar powered flight around the world. The Solar Impulse 2 finished the first leg of ...