Aviation history may be happening right over your head Thursday if you live in America’s heartland. Solar Impulse 2 – a funky-looking, experimental, sun-powered plane that’s attracted a lot of ...

TWO Swiss pilots hope to become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in an aeroplane powered only by the sun. The experimental plane, named the Solar Impulse II, was presented in Switzerland's ...

The cross-Atlantic flight is likely to be one of the most grueling legs in the aircraft’s ambitious around-the-world journey, devised to raise awareness of the power and potential of clean-energy ...

Lightweight and energy-efficient technologies that enable the solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft to fly around the world, are commercially available today and already finding new uses in a wide ...

Kokam’s Ultra High Energy NMC batteries feature an energy density of approximately 260 watts hours per kilogram (Wh/kg). This high energy density enables the Solar Impulse 2 to store more energy ...

The sunlight-powered journey around the world ended in the dark as pilot Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse 2 aircraft at 4:05 a.m. local time on July 26 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The ...

Over San Francisco Bay in April, 2016. Taking off from Nagoya, Japan in June 2015. Bertrand Piccard takes a selfie over Hawaii, April 2016. Leaving Nanjing, China, bound for Hawaii, May 2015. The ...

First circumnavigation of the globe by a piloted solar aircraft nears its end. Vaguely interesting. This story took a long time to conclude. Glad they made it, and I hope it leads to improvements to ...

The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft touched down at sunrise in Hawaii Friday after five days of flying over the Pacific Ocean, completing the longest leg of an around-the-world flight powered only by the sun ...

Who needs gas? Solar Impulse 2 takes off on a round-the-world flight with only the sun for fuel. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit (opens in ...

Every now and then something new comes along that causes you to want to dig down and find out a little more information. Tearing my attention away from Caitlin Jenner for a moment, I thought I'd take ...