Solar Impulse 2 set a new world record for a single plane flight: 118 hours

One emergency landing. Two months of waiting. The record was accomplished: Andre Borschberg flew over the ocean without a single drop of fuel. The pilot spent 4 days in the air, 22 hours and one minute, flying 8279 kilometers across the Pacific Ocean from the Japanese Nagoya Airport to American Hawaii.

Marie from the Solar Impulse team is not responding to my letters (they are joyful drink champagne ). Therefore, interesting photos in large size will be later.



Solar Impulse 2 flew on June 29 from the airport in the Japanese city of Nagoya. For almost five days, Andre Borschberg spent two cubic meters in the cockpit. This is the longest of the thirteen flights in the framework of the round-the-world journey of the "solar" aircraft. The pilot slept several times a day for fifteen to twenty minutes, using self-hypnosis and meditation techniques, and ate eleven times a day with food prepared by Nestle experts.
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At about 19:00 Moscow time, Solar Impulse 2 touched the landing strip in Hawaii.



The first image of the Solar Impulse over Hawaii


In Hawaii, without the famous flower garlands can not


Festive Drink

The previous record for the duration of the non-stop flight belonged to Steve Fossett , who on board the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer spent 76 hours 45 minutes in the air. Fossett crossed the Atlantic twice and covered 41,467 kilometers.