Solar plane resumes world journey

Solar Impulse, the plane designed to fly day and night on zero fuel, is to leave Hawaii for the western United States as it resumes its record-breaking circumnavigation of the globe powered only by the sun

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JOURNEY SO FAR (Mar-Jun 2015)

Time Distance

Mar 09 Abu Dhabi (UAE) - Muscat (Oman) 441km 13hrs 01min

Mar 10 Muscat - Ahmedabad (India)1,485km 15hrs 20min

Mar 18 Ahmedabad - Varanasi (India) 1,215km 13hrs 15min

Mar 19 Varanasi - Mandalay (Myanmar) 1,398km 13hrs 29min

Mar 29 Mandalay - Chongqing (China) 1,459km 20hrs 29min

Apr 21 Chongqing - Nanjing (China) 1,344km 17hrs 22min

May 31 Nanjing - Nagoya (Japan) 2,852km 44hrs 09min

Jun 28 Nagoya - Hawaii (U.S.) 8,924km 117hrs 52min

Source: Solar Impulse, 

Picture: Getty Images

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