Solar Impulse 2 round-the-world sun-powered flight

[Martin X. Moleski, SJ]

They say that Solar Impulse 2 has taken off.

"A pair of Swiss explorers have begun a mission to circumnavigate the globe via air and sun. A take-off twelve years in the making, the experimental Solar Impulse 2 plane left Abu Dhabi at 7:12 a.m. local time, bound for Muscat, Oman, on the first leg in a journey that will require 25 days in the air spread over a period of roughly 5 months."

[Ric Gillespie]

Well, in 1911 the first transcontinental flight took about three months and 70 stops.

[Martin X. Moleski, SJ]

Well, in 1911 the first transcontinental flight took about three months and 70 stops.

I think I read a whole book about the  flight of the "Vin Fiz." 

Calbraith Perry Rodgers died in a crash within a few months of completing his journey.