Solar Impulse solar powered over ocean

- Solar Impulse 2 is Monday began a journey from New York to Europe without a single drop of fuel to pass.

The plane with the Swiss Bertrand Piccard at the controls should countries Thursday in Spain or France, that the crossing is done with pure solar energy.

The unit has since March 2015 working on a journey around the world on solar energy. The electric motor gets the energy from batteries, propellers sends that the Solar Impulse with an average speed of 70 kilometers per hour towards Europe drives. The aircraft weighs about 1,600 kilograms at a length of 22 meters. It can reach a height of 8500 meters.
  
    
     
      
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The flight of the John F. Kennedy Airport to continental Europe takes about 90 hours. Solar Impulse was previously nonstop 118 hours in the air as he flew over the Pacific Ocean from Japan to Hawaii.