March 9, 2015
Solar Impulse 2, piloted by project founders Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, takes off from Abu Dhabi and lands in Oman after the first leg of a historic attempt to circumnavigate the world without a drop of fossil fuel
March 10, 2015
It takes off from Muscat, Oman and lands in Ahmedabad, India
March 18, 2015
It takes off from Ahmedabad and lands in Varanasi. From there it takes off and arrives at Mandalay, Myanmar
March 29, 2015
It takes off from Mandalay and lands at Chongqing, China
April 20, 2015
It takes off from Chongqing and arrives at Nanjing, China
May 30, 2015
It takes off from Nanjing and reaches Nagoya, Japan in 44 hours and 9 minutes
June 28, 2015
Solar Impulse 2 takes off from Nagoya and lands in Kalaeloa, Hawaii, in 117 hours and 52 minutes and breaks the world records of distance and duration for solar aviation, as well as the world record for the longest solo flight ever
April 21, 2016
It takes off from Hawaii and arrives at San Francisco in 62 hours and 29 minutes
May 2, 2016
It takes off from San Francisco and lands at Phoenix in 15 hours and 52 minutes
May 12, 2016
Solar Impulse 2 takes off from Phoenix and lands at Tulsa International Airport in Oklahoma in 18 hours and 10 minutes
May 21, 2016
It takes from Tulsa and lands at Dayton in 16 hours and 34 minutes.
May 25, 2016
Solar Impulse 2 takes off from Dayton and arrives at Lehigh Valley in 16 hours and 49 minutes.
June 11, 2016
It takes off from Lehigh Valley and lands at New York.
June 20, 2106
Solar Impulse 2 takes off from New York and continues to make history when it lands in Seville, Spain after completing a 71 hour and 8 minute transatlantic journey
July 11, 2016
It takes off from Seville and flies over the Egyptian Pyramids and lands in Cairo after 48 hours and 50 minutes
July 26, 2016
Solar Impulse 2 lands at Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi, after creating history by circumnavigating the globe without using a drop of fossil fuel. It has covered more than 40,000km in its quest to become the first plane to circle the world using just the energy from the Sun
Compiled by Gulf News Archives
