Solar plane begins 6 days cross of Pacific ocean under the virtue of sun

BEIJING -- A Swiss pilot of a solar plane on Sunday embarked on the longest leg of the first attempt to fly around the world without a drop of fuel.

Andre Borschberg took off from Nanjing, China, at 2:39 a.m. Sunday (1839 GMT Saturday) in the Solar Impulse 2 for a five-day-five-night flight to Hawaii across the Pacific Ocean.

The journey started in March in Abu Dhabi, and the solar plane has stopped in Oman, India, Myanmar and China. The 8,175-kilometre flight from Nanjing to Hawaii is the seventh of 12 flights and the longest and most dangerous.

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