Beijing – The revolutionary aircraft Solar Impulse 2, which launched Sunday morning to conquer the Pacific, was forced to stop its expansion and performed on Monday a holding pattern over the sea Japan, due to a rain front on its planned route, organizers said.
The road to Hawaii is blocked. As long as this lasts, we have to wait, explained Bertrand Piccard, in an interview broadcast Monday on the Solar Impulse website.
But it will, time (on-site) is good and the batteries are loaded, added the binomial André Borschberg, who holds her camera controls.
2 Solar Impulse took off Sunday at 2:40 (6:40 p.m. GMT Saturday) Nanjing (Eastern China) the most dangerous stage of its world tour, during which the Swiss driver should take only six days and six nights.
The bad weather conditions are identified to thousands of kilometers from the current position of the airplane, but cloudy forehead should absolutely clear before André Borschberg is alone in the middle of the Pacific, without possibility of landing, said Mr Piccard.
The team overseeing the flight identified airports in Japan where the aircraft might have to land
(© AFP / June 1, 2015 4:30).
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