Post by Logan on May 3, 2016 2:36:21 GMT -6
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- A solar-powered airplane landed in suburban Phoenix Monday night after a daylong flight from California — the latest leg in its around the world journey using only energy from the sun.
The Swiss-made Solar Impulse 2 arrived in the suburb of Goodyear, just to the southwest of Phoenix, shortly before 9 p.m. PDT.
Pilot Andre Borschberg called the 16-hour trip "a beautiful flight," after stepping from the cockpit.
"It was a special flight; not a long flight," he added.
The aircraft took off from Mountain View in northern California shortly after 5 a.m.
Read more here: www.islandpacket.com/news/business/technology/article75081202.html
Good luck to the pilot and I'm certain that all of us will be excited when he travels across the Atlantic Ocean since that will be more than half of the journey.
The Swiss-made Solar Impulse 2 arrived in the suburb of Goodyear, just to the southwest of Phoenix, shortly before 9 p.m. PDT.
Pilot Andre Borschberg called the 16-hour trip "a beautiful flight," after stepping from the cockpit.
"It was a special flight; not a long flight," he added.
The aircraft took off from Mountain View in northern California shortly after 5 a.m.
Read more here: www.islandpacket.com/news/business/technology/article75081202.html
Good luck to the pilot and I'm certain that all of us will be excited when he travels across the Atlantic Ocean since that will be more than half of the journey.