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Solar plane breaks non-stop flying record

A Swiss man
attempting to circumnavigate the globe with an aircraft powered only by the
sun’s energy has broken a world record for the longest non-stop solo flight,
the project team said yesterday.

The Solar
Impulse, which took off from Japan on Monday on the seventh leg of its journey
and is expected to land in Hawaii by the weekend, shattered the solo-flight
record threshold of 76 hours while crossing the Pacific.

The aircraft,
piloted alternately by Swiss explorers Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard,
set off on its 22,000-mile journey around the world from Abu Dhabi
on 9 March.

“Can you
imagine that a solar powered airplane without fuel can now fly longer than a
jet plane?!” said Piccard in a statement.

“This is a clear message
that clean technologies can achieve impossible goals.”

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