The Solar Impulse 2, was the first solar airplane to sustain flight at night with a pilot on board SI2 is making its historic round-the-world trip powered only by the sun. solar Impulse 2 departure 40,000km from Abu Dhabi, and arrival Host City, to India, Myanmar, China, Japan, U.S.A and back to Europe and Abu Dhabi. Strategies were invented from scratch to allow Solar Impulse 2 to fly across the Pacific for 5 consecutive days and nights, and become the first solar airplane to accomplish an oceanic crossing. This historic and record-breaking flight from Japan to Hawaii was achieved by André Borschberg in July 2015, proving that clean technologies can accomplish incredible things. Bertrand Piccard then finished crossing the Pacific, and flew over the Atlantic, making Si2 furthermore the first solar plane to have crossed the world’s two biggest oceans.
