Solar Impulse 2Round-the-world flight with solar airplane successfully completed
On July 26, the Solar Impulse 2 landed in Abu Dhabi - the last stop on a historic round-the-world flight in a solar-powered aircraft that began on March 9, 2015. As one of the technology partners, ABB was involved in the project from the very beginning.
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... the SI2 landed in Abu Dhabi at 4:05 a.m. local time on the morning of July 26, 2016, completing the final leg of a journey considered impossible: a round-the-world flight in an electric aircraft powered solely by the sun, which can fly for several consecutive days and nights without fuel. With the final leg ...