Environment News Service: The world`s first attempt to circumnavigate the Earth by a piloted fixed-wing aircraft using only solar power has completed the longest, most difficult leg of its journey.
Landing in Hawaii at 5:55am local time after flying more than five days and nights from Nagoya, Japan to encourage the use of clean technologies, the solar-powered plane Solar Impulse, with André Borschberg at the controls, taxied to a stop in Kalaeloa, on the island of Oahu.
Solar Impulse 2 approaches the island of Oahu,...