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©️ ½ 👉 Spectacular flight of a solar-powered plane over the Pacific Ocean

By cb2008 on 28/07/2023 · 0 Comment

Solar Impulse 2 landed safely in California after a 62-hour flight over the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to San Francisco. The stages of the flight so far have led from Abu Dhabi via i.a. Oman, India, China, Japan and Hawaii. Piccard flew, among others, over the famous Golden Gate Bridge as thousands of people watched.

More on the solar-powered aircraft and the unusual flight over the Pacific Ocean in the next issue of the magazine “Paliwa i Energetyka” 2/2016 [17].

Solar Impulse 2’s flight path around the world / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

The first technical tests of the Solar Impulse 2 aircraft / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

Solar Impulse 2 first flight / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

Solar Impulse 2’s second flight / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

Solar Impulse 2’s eighth flight / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

Solar Impulse 2 / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

Solar Impulse 2 test flight over Abu Dhabi / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

Solar Impulse 2’s first leg around the world – from Abu Dhabi to Muscat, Oman / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

Solar Impulse 2 round-the-world flight from Muscat, Oman to Ahmedabad, India / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

The third leg of Solar Impulse 2’s round-the-world flight – from Ahmedabad, India to Varanasi, India / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

Solar Impulse 2 round-the-world fourth leg – from Varanasi, India to Mandalay, Myanmar / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

The fifth leg of Solar Impulse 2’s flight around the world – from Mandalay, Myanmar to Chongqing, China / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

Solar Impulse 2 round-the-world sixth flight – Chongqing, China to Nanjing, China / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

Solar Impulse 2’s seventh round-the-world flight – from Nanjing, China to Nagoya, Japan / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

The eighth leg of Solar Impulse 2’s round-the-world flight – from Nagoya, Japan to Hawaii, USA / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

Solar Impulse 2 over Hawaii / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

The ninth leg of the Solar Impulse 2 flight around the world – from Hawaii to Mountain View in the USA / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

The ninth leg of the Solar Impulse 2 flight around the world – from Hawaii to Mountain View in the USA – flight over the Golden Bridge in San Francisco / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

Solar Impulse 2 pilots – Bertrand Piccard and André Borscherg after completing the ninth leg of their round-the-world flight / source: Solar Impulse Press Corner

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