Solar Impulse reaches Hawaii on record-setting trans-Pacific journey

By 2015-07-03T17:11:00

Solar Impulse heads to Nagoya

​The Solar Impulse 2 round-the-world flight project scored its biggest triumph to date with the completion of a multiple record-setting leg from Nagoya to Hawaii – a five-day segment that pushed limits for the aircraft’s solar-only power system, its ground control team and its solo pilot.

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