'Paper Plane' Solar Impulse 2 resumes world tour

84 views · Published 22 April 2016 · 0:52 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: africanews · 2016 · News & Politics

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The Solar Impulse 2 resumes its world tour, after a technical stop of around 300 days.

The plane took off Thursday from Hawaii towards the US West Coast. Approximate duration of the trip was 62 hours.

The batteries of the Solar Impulse 2 had suffered damage during the stage between Nagoya, Japan and Hawaii in the Pacific.

  BREAKING NEWS #Si2 has just taken off to #SF with @BertrandPiccard at the commands. The adventure is back on! pic.twitter.com/qHgtNJGLcU— SOLAR IMPULSE (@solarim…
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