Circling The Globe in a Solar-Powered Plane

Friday, April 26, 2019

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Some dreams are so fantastic, it takes an unprecedented bid for adventure and glory to see them blossom to fruition.

Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, captivated by the spirit of great expeditions of the past, partnered to make the first flight across the world in a solar-powered plane that produces no pollution.

Storing solar energy in batteries, the Solar Impulse is capable of staying aloft indefinitely. Solar Impulse 2 is a solar-powered aircraft equipped with more than 17,000 solar cells that weighs only 2.4 tons with a wingspan of 235 ft.

The journey took a very long time—505 days to fly 26,000 miles (42,000 km) at an average speed of about 45 mph However, as Piccard and Borschberg learned, this didn’t make the adventure easy — or require any less intrepid heroism from the co-pilots.

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