Solar Impulse 2 Solar Impulse 2’s historic mission to become the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the globe and to showcase that clean technologies can achieve the impossible was successfully achieved with the logistics support of Chapman Freeborn and Volga-Dnepr Airlines. The Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) project chose Chapman...

After crossing America and recently the Atlantic Ocean without a single drop of fuel, Solar Impulse 2 – the solar airplane of Swiss pioneers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg – took off from Spain early this morning to attempt the crossing of the Mediterranean Sea. The flight, that is expect to last two days and two nights depending on...