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Solar Plane Grounded With Damaged Batteries After 4,000-Mile Flight
The Solar Impulse 2, an aircraft that runs completely on solar-power, landed in Hawaii on July 3rd, five days after its departure from Japan—setting a record, at 4,000 miles, for the longest distance traversed by a solar-powered aircraft without stopping, and a full week before the first battery-powered plane flew across the 30-miles body of water between England and France.
