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.
... to pilot the solar-powered electric aircraft on its final leg. Together, the two pilots set a total of 19 world records, some of which have yet to be confirmed by the International Air Transport Federation (FAI) - in particular André Borschberg's historic pioneering feat of crossing the Pacific from Japan to Hawaii in five consecutive days and nights (longest flight duration for a single-seater).Borschberg's historic pioneering feat of crossing the Pacific from Japan to Hawaii in five consecutive days and nights (the longest flight duration for a single-seater) and Bertrand Piccard's first crossing of the Atlantic in a solar-powered aircraft. For the coordination of the entire project ...