The second version of the 100% solar-powered airplane, Solar Impulse, has been completed. It debuted April 9 in Payerne, Switzerland. The new airplane will be the one used in next year's attempted ...

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The Solar Impulse 2 solar-powered plane is set to resume its record-breaking flight around the world next month, leaving Hawaii when weather permits, a spokeswoman told AFP on Thursday. “The first ...

The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft was flying over the western Atlantic Monday morning on one of the most difficult legs of its record-breaking bid to cross the globe using only solar energy. The plane, ...

Solar Impulse 2 has set a new world record for the longest non-stop solo flight. Landing in Hawaii Friday morning local time, the sun-powered plane, piloted by Andre Borschberg, stayed in the air for ...

Solar Impulse 2 (“Si2”), the world’s most advanced solar-powered airplane and the first to fly day and night without fuel, landed successfully in Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, following a 20 ...

Historic aircraft lost: Solar Impulse 2, the first solar-powered plane to fly around the world, crashed into the Gulf of Mexico on May 4 during an unmanned test. Cause under investigation: NTSB says ...

Over 50 people make up the crew that maintains the Solar Impulse 2, a solar- powered aircraft on a historic flight around the world. The plane landed in Dayton Saturday night and is scheduled to take ...

Two filmmakers spent more than a year chronicling the Solar Impulse 2 as it flew around the world with no fuel.Their Nova film takes us inside the cockpit. This Solar-Powered Plane Can Now Fly Around ...

Supporters of the Solar Impulse 2 hope to show that a solar-powered plane can make it around the world. Dayton is part of that journey. The experimental plane landed at Dayton International Airport on ...

The sunlight-powered journey around the world ended in the dark as pilot Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse 2 aircraft at 4:05 a.m. local time on July 26 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The ...