The Solar Impulse aircraft completed the final leg of its historic journey across the US late Saturday when it landed at New York’s JFK airport. The plane, laden with nearly 12,000 solar cells ...

The Swiss-built Solar Impulse airplane ended its two-month-long, solar-powered trip across America with a nail-biter of a flight from Washington to New York on Saturday."Maybe if I didn't have 10 ...

Solar Impulse 2 shows what is possible, and is no less impressive an engineering feat than, say, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The design and engineering teams had three objectives. First and ...

Across the main wing, fuselage, and horizontal stabilizer of the aircraft are 17,248 solar cells with four lithium batteries storing the power to turn the four electric motors and propellers.

Solar Impulse 2 will climb to 8,500 meters (5.28 miles) during the day, where it can reach its maximum speed and store more solar energy for the night. As dusk arrives, ...

The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane made a smooth landing in Washington early Sunday, leaving just one more solar-powered hop to go in its cross-continent odyssey.The 208-foot-wide (63-meter-wide ...