Solar Powered Plane on Round The World Flight Gets stuck in China
ADVERTISEMENT The Solar Impulse 2, the experimental jet attempting to hover in the region of the world without using a slip of fuel, has been stranded by the weather in China. What was supposed to be an overnight pit viewpoint in the southwestern city of Chongqing has now stretched into a two-and-a-half week stay. It's an sudden layover that is scrutiny the patience of the pilots and on peak of 60 team members, just a quarter of the quirk along a journey that will lid some 35,000 kilometers (21,748 miles) on intensity of five months. "You can proclamation you will that your will can involve the weather," says pilot Bertrand Piccard, who comes from a long relatives parentage of explorers. But "later you'll be really disappointed because it doesn't feign. "Or you just know that it's an adventure you undertaking as soon as the forces of flora and fauna." Piccard, along by now Andre Borschberg, a Swiss engineer, are taking turns flying the single-s...