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Pilot to fly solar plane across Pacific for 5 days, 5 nights

2015-05-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: A pilot said Sunday that he is anxious but excited about flying a solar plane solo from China to Hawaii on the longest leg of the first attempt to fly around the world without a drop of fuel. André Borschberg, 62, is due to fly over the Pacific Ocean for five days and five nights in the plane that has more than 17,000 solar cells on its wings to power its motors and recharge its batteries for nighttime flying. The Solar Impulse 2 set off from Abu Dhabi in March and has stopped in Oman, India...

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