Solar Impulse 2 landed late on Tuesday in the Chinese city of Nanjing, finishing the sixth stage of its landmark 12-leg quest to circumnavigate the globe powered only by the sun.
With pilot Bertrand Piccard at the controls, the pioneering single-seater aircraft touched down at 11:31 pm (1531 GMT), after a 17-hour trip from the southwestern megacity of Chongqing some 1,190 kilometres away.
Its arrival came after repeated meteorological delays and its other Swiss co-pilot, Andre Borschberg, returned to Europe to be treated for migraines.
Solar plane lands in east China ahead of most ambitious leg - IBNLive
With pilot Bertrand Piccard at the controls, the pioneering single-seater aircraft touched down at 11:31 pm (1531 GMT), after a 17-hour trip from the southwestern megacity of Chongqing some 1,190 kilometres away.
Its arrival came after repeated meteorological delays and its other Swiss co-pilot, Andre Borschberg, returned to Europe to be treated for migraines.
Solar plane lands in east China ahead of most ambitious leg - IBNLive
