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Japan: Weather Halts Solar Plane Japan: Weather Halts Solar Plane
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A solar-powered plane trying to circle the globe without a drop of fuel made an unscheduled landing late Monday in Japan to wait out bad weather. The Swiss pilot, André Borschberg, took off Sunday from Nanjing, China, on what was to be the longest leg of the journey, a six-day, 5,079-mile flight to Hawaii. Instead, the Solar Impulse 2 landed safely at the Nagoya Airport. The journey is to continue when the weather improves. “You know, it’s one of these strange moments of life between elation and disappointment,” said Bertrand Piccard, chairman and co-pilot of Solar Impulse 2, adding, “Everything we could do has been done and was successful. What we cannot control is the weather.” A solar-powered plane trying to circle the globe without a drop of fuel made an unscheduled landing late Monday in Japan to wait out bad weather. The Swiss pilot, André Borschberg, took off Sunday from Nanjing, China, on what was to be the longest leg of the journey, a six-day, 5,079-mile flight to Hawaii. Instead, the Solar Impulse 2 landed safely at the Nagoya Airport. The journey is to continue when the weather improves. “You know, it’s one of these strange moments of life between elation and disappointment,” said Bertrand Piccard, chairman and co-pilot of Solar Impulse 2, adding: “Everything we could do has been done and was successful. What we cannot control is the weather.”