This is an incredible challenge for a driver. That of standing alone at the controls of an airplane, Solar Impulse 2, for a long crossing of the Pacific. The aircraft took off Saturday, May 31 in Nanjing in China, destination Honolulu (Hawaii), a flight of 8,500 kilometers under extreme conditions. The device is barely heavier than a car. On the wings, 17,000 photovoltaic cells and a battery that allows it to fly day and night.
The 62-year-old driver will live in a tiny cockpit of three square meters without heating or air conditioning for six days and six nights. To stay on course, he can agree that shorter sleep than twenty minutes. “I will not be gone if I had any doubt, I know that this step is different from others, but I am very confident we have all the tools to get there,” explained André Borschberg, the pilot of Solar Impulse 2.
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