Solar powered plane completes historic flight across the Atlantic
Solar Impulse 2 touches down in Spain after risky four day journey from New York to Seville
A Swiss pilot has completed the first solar-powered flight across the Atlantic and secured a place in aviation history.
Bertrand Piccard flew the the revolutionary Solar Impulse 2 from New York to Seville, completing his four day journey early this morning.
The aeroplane collects solar energy and stores it in batteries, allowing to fly through the night and cope with bad weather.
"The Atlantic is the symbolic part of the flight,” Piccard .
“It is symbolic because all the means of transportation have always tried to cross the Atlantic, the first steamboats, the first aeroplane, the first balloons, the first airships and, today, it is the first solar-powered aeroplane.
“But the goal is not to change aviation, as Charles Lindbergh did, but to inspire people to use [renewable] technologies and show people they can use these technologies every day to have a better quality of life."