The Solar Impulse 2 (Si2), a Swiss-made solar-powered aircraft, took off at sunrise from Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on a historic mission to fly around the world without a drop of ...

A solar-powered airplane made a smooth trip on Monday from Texas to a stormy part of America – St. Louis, where the Solar Impulse team put a portable, inflatable hangar to its first real-world test.

The Swiss experimental aircraft Solar Impulse has completed its first intercontinental flight after crossing the Strait of Gibraltar and landing in Rabat, Morocco, on 5 June. The solar-powered ...

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The Solar Impulse 2 completed its historic circumnavigation of the Earth on this day in 2016, after a journey that spanned approximately 26,000 miles (42,000 kilometers) and took over a year to ...

Five years after their ambitious solar powered flight project first got airborne, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg have entered final preparations for the first leg of a five-month, 12-stage ...

An airplane powered entirely by the sun has almost finished its more than year-long, globe-trotting journey. The single-seat Solar Impulse 2 took off from Seville for Cairo Monday with pilot Andre ...

The experimental plane Solar Impulse 2, which completed a historic round-the-world trip in 2016 without using jet fuel, crashed into the Gulf of Mexico recently, its owner revealed. Flown by Swiss ...

The SolarStratos plane has 22 square metres of solar panels on its wings – Copyright CNA/AFP STR Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan beat the altitude record for a solar ...

Aviation history is currently in the making as Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg attempt the first solar powered flight around the world. The Solar Impulse 2 finished the first leg of ...

A solar-powered Swiss airplane is back in the air as it attempts a 35,000-kilometer trip around the world without a drop of fuel. The Solar Impulse 2 flew out of central Japan early Monday after an ...