Monday, June 1, 2015

Bad weather forces Solar Impulse to make unscheduled stop in Japan

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Over the weekend, Solar Impulse finally departed from China to begin its five-day, five-night solar-powered journey across the Pacific Ocean on its way to Hawaii. This leg of the round-the-world expedition had been delayed for weeks due to bad weather, and a storm approaching Hawaii is forcing pilot André Borschberg to make an unscheduled stop in Nagoya, Japan.

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