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Solar powered plane lands in Cairo

July 14, 2016 8:39 AM

Piloted by Swiss aviator Andre Borschbergm, the aircraft took off from Spain's Seville International Airport at 04:20 GMT on Monday and landed Wednesday morning at Cairo International Airport.

Piloted by Swiss aviator Andre Borschbergm, the aircraft took off from Spain's Seville International Airport at 04:20 GMT on Monday

Solar powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2 landed in Egypts capital, Cairo Wednesday after a 51-hour flight from Spain, with only one leg ahead to complete its round-the-world tour.

"Thank you for the badge , I can now say good morning !," Borschbergm tweeted.

The aircraft will be in Cairo for 15 days before its final stop is Abu Dhabi, where the challenged began in March 2015.

The adventure is to encourage people to promote clean and renewable energies.

Andre Borschbergm hailed Cairo's appreciation of renewable energies.

Solar Impulse 2 has a wingspan of 72 meters, 12 meters longer than that of Boeing 747, but weighs only 2.3 ton. Equipped with 17,248 solar cells, the zero-fuel plane runs on stored energy at night.

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