"Solar Impulse" 2 is designed for an Swiss do not add any fuel and does not emit any pollutants that can fly day and night by solar aircraft. In early March this year, "Sun Power" on the 2nd flight departure from Abu Dhabi flight around the world, through 25 flights scheduled day and night, landing at 12 sites, and eventually return to Abu Dhabi.
Honolulu is the 8 points "Sun Power" on the 2nd . Previously, the machine has 5 points in the first and sixth stations are reach China's Chongqing and Nanjing.
In this time from Nagoya to Honolulu flight across the Pacific Ocean, the 62-year-old Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg alone an airplane flying about 8200 km, the average speed of about 70 kilometers per hour.Borschberg rely on autopilot function while keeping aircraft flying sleepy, sleep for about 20 minutes.
"Sun Power" on the 2nd to local time at 2:00 on the 3rd arrived in Honolulu over, since the intended landing airport poor lighting conditions, the aircraft had circled in the air nearly four hours.
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