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A Solar powered Plane Lands In Hawaii after Five day Flight across the Pacific ocean from Japan
A plane powered by the sun's rays has touched down in Hawaii after a record-breaking, five-day journey. Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg landed his single-seat aircraft on Friday at Kalaeloa, a small airport outside Honolulu.
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Aside from that being amazing, can you imagine being stuck in a single seat aircraft for 5 days straight? How the heck did his legs survive that?
He was a jet pilot for the Swiss Air Force before he founded the Solar Impulse Project. I'm guessing endurance flight was a part of his training for the air force.