Solar plane crosses Atlantic

Solar Impulse has completed the first ever crossing of the Atlantic by a solar-powered aeroplane. The historic trip, from New York to the Spanish city of Seville, is the latest leg in its record-setting, round-the-world, fuel-free voyage

Plane flies with four engines powered solely by energy collected from 17,000 photovoltaic cells built into wings

Mission managers will now plot route to Abu Dhabi, where venture began in March 2015

ATLANTIC OCEAN
PACIFIC OCEAN
Time 	Distance

JOURNEY SO FAR
(Mar 2015 - Jun 2016)

1 Mar 09 Abu Dhabi (UAE) - Muscat (Oman) 772km  13hrs 01min
2 Mar 10 Muscat - Ahmedabad (India) 1,593km  15hrs 20min
3 Mar 18 Ahmedabad - Varanasi (India) 1,170km  13hrs 15min
4 Mar 19 Varanasi - Mandalay (Myanmar)1,536km 13hrs 29min
5 Mar 29 Mandalay - Chongqing (China)1,636km 20hrs 29min
6 Apr 21 Chongqing - Nanjing (China)1,384km 17hrs 22min
7 May 31 Nanjing - Nagoya (Japan)2,942km 44hrs 09min
8 Jun 28 Nagoya - Hawaii (U.S.)8,924km 117hrs 52min

Plane grounded for nine months in Hawaii to repair damaged batteries
9 Apr 21 Hawaii - San Francisco (U.S.)4,086km 62hrs 29min
10 May 2Francisco - Phoenix (U.S.)1,113km  15hrs 52minSan 
11 May 12 Phoenix - Tulsa (U.S.)1,570km 18hrs 10min
12 May 21 Tulsa - Dayton (U.S.)1,113km 12 16hrs 34min
13 May 25 Dayton - Lehigh Valley (U.S.)1,044km 16hrs 49min
14 Jun 11 Lehigh Valley - New York (U.S.)265km 4hrs 41min
15 Jun 20 New York - Seville (Spain)6,272km Around 72hrs 

Picture: Associated PressSource: Solar Impulse