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BREAKING @bertrandpiccard just landed in #LehighValley at the gates of #NYC after a 0 fuel flight.

Next destination, Si2. We can’t tell you is because we don’t know! Mission engineers have been working on a range of flight paths in order to eventually reach New York City. As always with Solar Impulse, there are a range of obstacles that must and will be overcome along the way.

Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project, The privately financed project is led by Swiss engineer and businessman André Borschberg and Swiss psychiatrist and aeronaut Bertrand Piccard, who co-piloted Breitling Orbiter 3, the first balloon to circle the world non-stop. The Solar Impulse will to achieve the first circumnavigation of the Earth by a piloted fixed-wing aircraft using captured energy rather than recovered fuel. In March 2015, Piccard and Borschberg began to circumnavigate the globe with Solar Impulse 2, departing from Abu Dhabi. By June 2015, SI2 had traversed Asia, and notably, by July 2015, it completed...

The experimental aircraft, which has a wingspan bigger than a jumbo but weighs little more than a large car, left Nanjing at 02:39 (18:39 GMT). It is likely to take Mr Borschberg five to six days of continuous flight to reach his central Pacific destination. He will try to stay awake for much of that time, taking only short catnaps. His progress will be monitored the entire way from a control room in Monaco. Meteorologists and flight strategists will constantly update him on the best route to follow.

...The Solar Impulse took off from Dulles International Airport just before 5 a.m. Saturday. It was anticipated to soar over Maryland, Delaware, past Atlantic City, N.J., and by the Statue of Liberty before landing at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport early Sunday morning, The Associated Press reported. The plane's estimated time of arrival in New York is around 2 a.m., according to its website.André Borschberg, the Solar Impulse's pilot, will not guide the plane to climb to more than 10,000 feet during its journey to the Big Apple...