Solar Plane crosses Atlantic
The zero-fuel airplane Solar impulse has finish the second to last leg of its bid to circle the globe. The plane has just completed it's 70-hour Atlantic leg from New York to Spain. Pilot Bertrand Piccard looked after the plane which hoped to get to Paris to echo the first flight in 1927 of Charles Lindbergh. Mission managers will now plot a route to Abu Dhabi to Kalaeloa including a 21 hour leg over the western Pacific - The longest solo flight in flying aircraft history in terms of the time it took .
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