The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft landed in Cairo on Wednesday, putting it tantalizingly close to completing a circumnavigation of the globe without burning a single drop of fuel.

Solar Impulse 2 took off from Goodyear Airport at 3:05 a.m. MT with pilot and Chairman of Solar Impulse, Bertrand Piccard, at the controls. The plane weighs over 5,000 pounds -- about the heft of ...

The Solar Impulse 2, a fuel-free solar-powered plane, flies over the Golden Gate Bridge before landing at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California during a 62.5-hour flight from Hawaii.

Solar Impulse set to soar on U.S. tour 18 photos Piccard and Borschber rotated 24-hour shifts for the flight across the United States. The trip around the world will be done in four- to six-day ...

The Solar Impulse can move its 4,409-pounds carbon-fiber body at an altitude of 39,370-feet, while maintaining a 43.9mph average speed. Full specs and a picture of the team after the jump.

Prior to the Solar Impulse 2’s flight, the previous record for longest solo flight had been held by entrepreneur Steve Fosset, who flew 25,000 miles around the world in a 76-hour trip in 2006.

Solar Impulse was grounded in Hawaii after the plane's battery system sustained damage during the Japan-to-Hawaii leg of the trip. After at least two planned stops in the United States, Solar ...

The flight should take around five months to complete, and the 21,748-mile journey has been divided into 12 manageable trips. The team behind the Solar Impulse 2, Bertrand Piccard and André ...

Shortly after Solar Impulse 2 touches down in Hawaii, its other pilot, Bertrand Piccard, will be taking it back up and across the rest of the Pacific on a four-day flight to Phoenix, Arizona.

The record-breaking Solar Impulse plane will be grounded in Hawaii for at least two weeks because of battery damage, making a complete round-the-world journey this year increasingly difficult.

A historic first attempt to fly around the world in a solar-powered aircraft got underway from Abu Dhabi on Monday. The first stop for the Solar Impulse 2 plane will be Muscat in Oman on its ...