The renewable energy plane touched down in Abu Dhabi after the final leg of its marathon trip which began on March 9 last year
Solar Impulse 2 took off from Cairo in darkness en route to its final destination Abu Dhabi
An aircraft powered by solar energy left Egypt on Sunday on the last leg of the first ever fuel-free flight around the globe
The final leg of an unprecedented world tour by a solar-powered plane was postponed Saturday due to the pilot's health
The experimental plane had completed the first solo transatlantic flight powered only by sunlight to land in Spain last month
The experimental plane is flying over the Atlantic at the hands of Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard and is due to land in Spain early Thursday
The plane had a five-day trip from Japan to Hawaii and three-day trip from Hawaii to California’s Silicon Valley
Borschberg and Piccard had hoped to finish the 35,000 km (21,748 mile), multi-leg circumnavigation in 2015, leaving from Abu Dhabi
The sun-powered plane Solar Impulse 2 will be grounded for months in Hawaii to carry out battery repairs
Pilot Andre Borschberg’s 120-hour voyage shattered the 76-hour record for nonstop flight by late American adventurer Steve Fossett in 2006
"Already halfway through what is probably the flight of my life! Loving it!," the pilot tweeted from the cockpit.
The Solar Impulse 2 is powered by more than 17,000 solar cells on its wings that recharge its batteries, enabling it to fly
The Solar Impulse 2, a solar powered plane, left Nanjing, China on Sunday to fly over the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii
First Pilot ever to fly a solar plane around the world without a drop of fuel
The flight was the most difficult of the trip so far, Raymond Clerc, Solar Impulse flight director, said in an interview on the project’s website
By the time it arrived in Ahmedabad, in western India on Tuesday, the plane had flown 1,468 kilometers
The Solar Impulse 2, piloted by Andre Borschberg of Switzerland, took off from Al-Bateen airport in Abu Dhabi
Organizers hope that Solar Impulse 2 may head off around the globe as early as Saturday
Solar Impulse 2 craft to attempt five-day flight powered only by the sun in March 2015
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