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The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Spain on Thursday morning after completing a 70-hour flight from New York in the first solo transatlantic crossing in a solar-powered airplane.
Applause broke out as the experimental plane set down at Seville airport in southern Spain just before 7:40 am (0540 GMT) where a team was on the ground to welcome Swiss pilot and adventurer Bertrand Piccard, a correspondent said.
BREAKING @bertrandpiccard lands in #Seville completing, in 70h, the 1st #Atlantic solar flight #futureisclean pic.twitter.com/z8o96ynFDa"It is so fantastic!" Piccard told the plane's mission control centre in Monaco in remarks broadcast live on the Internet as the plane, which took off from New York on Monday, touched down.
- SOLAR IMPULSE (@solarimpulse) June 23, 2016
Spectacular #selfie moment over the #AtlanticOcean. Share it if you think the #futureisclean pic.twitter.com/JwOqeFa7QeSolar Impulse, which has just completed the 15th leg of its around-the-world trip, set out on March 9, 2015 in Abu Dhabi, and has flown across Asia and the Pacific to the United States with the sun as its only source of power.
- Bertrand PICCARD (@bertrandpiccard) June 23, 2016
Congratulations to the #solarimpulse TEAM ???????? Many hugs to everyone ! Here we are #Europe ?????? pic.twitter.com/XpdRSTXO3n"I arrived in the middle of an air show, it was absolutely extraordinary, that kept me awake!" Piccard told him in response, describing the acrobatic display put on by the Spanish air force as he came in to land.
- SOLAR IMPULSE (@solarimpulse) June 23, 2016
Starting some checkups and maintenance while the airplane bathes in the sun in front of the public #futureisclean pic.twitter.com/n5h6hRve64Piccard had kept followers up to date with sightings of whales and icebergs, as well as occasional turbulence on the near three-day transatlantic journey.
- SOLAR IMPULSE (@solarimpulse) June 23, 2016
We want to represent the new world, the world of #cleantechs. Because the #futureisclean & it starts now! ?? pic.twitter.com/ZplUGD4LsSBorschberg piloted a 6,437-kilometre flight between Japan and Hawaii that lasted 118 hours, smashing the previous record for the longest uninterrupted journey in aviation history.
- Bertrand PICCARD (@bertrandpiccard) June 23, 2016
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