THE WEEK

Solar Impulse II: Swiss pilots to circle globe in solar plane

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 ...
CNN

Crazy-looking Solar Impulse 2 airplane heads to Oklahoma

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 ...
Ars Technica

Solar Impulse on last leg of its round-the-world flight

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 ...
CNN

A peek into the Solar Impulse 2 cockpit in a historic trans-Atlantic flight

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 ...
The Business Journals

Solar Impulse lands in Hawaii after record-breaking leg of solar flight (Video)

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 ...