Over 17,000 solar cells line its wings, supplying a series of electric motors and charging four on-board lithium batteries. It’s designed to be entirely solar-powered, and, thanks to those batteries, able to fly through day and night.
Solar Impulse’s journey started in March of last year, and this baby has hit all the hottest airports like Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley International Airport and Dayton, Ohio, managing to make two stops in Arizona. No wonder the journey took a mere 505 days. (FWIW, the plane also traveled at the speed of a car.)
via Gizmodo
Image: Solar Impulse
