Pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg completed the global route for Solar Impulse 2 purely as a sun-powered flight. After a record-making completion of its flight around the world, Solar Impulse 2 is now making a strong case for "clean" technology.
As it is, the Solar Impulse 2 flight may now hold the key to addressing prevalent gas emissions and pollution compounded by air transport. CNN reports that the Solar Impulse team intended to prove that clean technology with intelligent use of resources is doable.
BREAKING: we flew 40'000km without fuel. It's a first for energy, take it further! #futureisclean pic.twitter.com/JCvKTDBVZx
— SOLAR IMPULSE (@solarimpulse) July 26, 2016
"You can fly now longer without fuel than with fuel, and you fly with the force of nature, you fly with the sun," Bertrand Piccard stated. "It's the new era now for energy and this is really what we'd like to inspire people to do."
According to Global News, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg were jointly able to complete over 500 hours of flight on Solar Impulse 2. The trip around the globe on Solar Impulse 2 took Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg a year to compete.
The longest delay was a 9-month stoppage in Hawaii after Solar Impulse 2 completed a five-day, five-night flight between Nagoya, Japan and Hawaii. This flight by Andre Borschberg gave Solar Impulse 2 the record for the longest solo flight.
Completing a #dream: the first Round-the-World #solar flight in history https://t.co/9DABXSg8AG pic.twitter.com/w8dTld9BYo — SOLAR IMPULSE (@solarimpulse) July 27, 2016
Not a drop of fuel was used by Solar Impulse 2 on this flight. The success of Solar Impulse 2 may fully redefine air travel, especially the technology and resource use involved - as Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg intend.
The media outlet lists out California, Arizona, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Oman and India as stopovers for Solar Impulse 2. The flight also stopped at Myanmar, China, Japan, the United States, Spain, Italy and Egypt.
The final stop was in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. This is where Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg marked their mission on Solar Impulse 2 completed.
