Thursday, 14 July 2016

Solar Impulse 2 closes in on circumnavigation with Cairo arrival



Solar Impulse 2 completed the penultimate leg of its solar-powered global circumnavigation today, touching down at Cairo International Airport at 10:13 pm PDT (5:14 GMT). With pilot André Borschberg at the controls, the single-seater aircraft landed after leaving Seville, Spain over two days ago on a Mediterranean flight that took it through the airspaces of Tunisia, Algeria, Malta, Italy, and Greece.

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