SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A plane powered only by the sun is waiting for the wind to die down before taking off from Moffett Field in Mountain View. Sky7 HD captured the moment on Saturday when the Solar ...

TWO Swiss pilots hope to become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in an aeroplane powered only by the sun. The experimental plane, named the Solar Impulse II, was presented in Switzerland's ...

Aviation history may be happening right over your head Thursday if you live in America’s heartland. Solar Impulse 2 – a funky-looking, experimental, sun-powered plane that’s attracted a lot of ...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world’s first round-the-world flight to be powered solely by the sun’s energy made history on Tuesday as it landed in Abu Dhabi, where it first took off on ...

Kokam’s Ultra High Energy NMC batteries feature an energy density of approximately 260 watts hours per kilogram (Wh/kg). This high energy density enables the Solar Impulse 2 to store more energy ...

The sunlight-powered journey around the world ended in the dark as pilot Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse 2 aircraft at 4:05 a.m. local time on July 26 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The ...

The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft touched down at sunrise in Hawaii Friday after five days of flying over the Pacific Ocean, completing the longest leg of an around-the-world flight powered only by the sun ...

Lightweight and energy-efficient technologies that enable the solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft to fly around the world, are commercially available today and already finding new uses in a wide ...

Every now and then something new comes along that causes you to want to dig down and find out a little more information. Tearing my attention away from Caitlin Jenner for a moment, I thought I'd take ...

First circumnavigation of the globe by a piloted solar aircraft nears its end. Vaguely interesting. This story took a long time to conclude. Glad they made it, and I hope it leads to improvements to ...

The Solar Impulse 2 is traveling from China to Hawaii. — -- It's the launch of the newest adventure in this first-of-its-kind aircraft. For the next 130 hours, six days and six nights with no ...