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Feature: Solar Impulse 2 lands in Hawaii after 118-hour non-stop flight over Pacific
2015-07-05 08:40:50| Airlines - Topix.net
Solar Impulse 2 pilot Bertrand Piccard and pilot Andre Borschberg celebrate after Borschberg landed at Kalaeloa Airport, Hawaii, the United States, July 3, 2015. Solar Impulse 2 , the first solar-powered aircraft in an attempt to fly around the world, safely landed at Kalaeloa Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii, at 5:51 a.m. local time , Friday after 118-hour non-stop flight over Pacific.
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Record-breaking solar flight reaches Hawaii after 5 nights and days airborne without fuel
2015-07-03 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The longest and most difficult leg of the Round the World Solar Flight attempted since last March by Swiss explorers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg ended successfully in Hawaii. At the controls of Solar Impulse 2, pilot André Borschberg landed safely in Hawaii after flying 117 hours and 52 minutes over the Pacific Ocean from Japan powered only by the sun. A historic landing took place in Hawaii after a perilous nonstop flight for 5 days and 5 nights. With the sun rising this morning at...
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Round-The-World Solar Plane Lands in Hawaii
2015-07-03 22:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The world`s first attempt to circumnavigate the Earth by a piloted fixed-wing aircraft using only solar power has completed the longest, most difficult leg of its journey. Landing in Hawaii at 5:55am local time after flying more than five days and nights from Nagoya, Japan to encourage the use of clean technologies, the solar-powered plane Solar Impulse, with André Borschberg at the controls, taxied to a stop in Kalaeloa, on the island of Oahu. Solar Impulse 2 approaches the island of Oahu,...
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Solar Impulse lands in Hawaii longest non-stop solo flight in history
2015-07-03 18:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A solar plane attempting the worlds first flight around the globe has landed in Hawaii, after breaking the record for the longest non-stop solo flight in history. Solar Impulse 2, piloted by the Swiss pilot André Borschberg, took off from Nagoya in Japan at 3am on Monday, for the five-day crossing of the Pacific Ocean, the riskiest leg of its journey. At 72 hours into the seventh leg of its 22,000-mile circumnavigation, Borschberg broke the endurance record for a solo flight. The next...
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Hawaii, Vermont set ambitious examples for renewables
2015-07-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: June marked two huge milestones in renewable energy in the U.S., with Hawaii and Vermont both passing laws that put in place the nations most ambitious renewable energy goals. Electricity generation is the nations largest emitter of climate-changing greenhouse gases, leading many states to set goals for how much of their power should come from low-carbon renewable energy. Today, 29 states have laws mandating a certain portion of their power to be generated from renewables as a way to combat climate...
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