Experimental Solar Powered Plane, Impulse 2, Leaves for Dayton, From Oklahoma

Solar Powered Aircraft, Impulse 2, has left Oklahoma for Dayton, Saturday. The experimental plane took off from the Tulsa International Airport, Oklahoma by 04:22pm(0922 GMT Saturday) and is scheduled to land at Dayton International Airport, Ohio by 11:00pm(0300GMT Sunday), kicking off latest phase of its record breaking quest to circle the globe running purely on renewable energy, the project organizers said.



“The flight is part of the attempt to achieve the first ever Round-The-World Solar Flight, the goal of which is to demonstrate how modern clean technologies can achieve the impossible,” a statement from the organizers read.

The solar plane comes with extra accessories which included an inflatable mobile hangar, which shields it from external elements and can be quickly disassembled and transported.

Andre Borschsberg, a Swiss Businessman who had teamed up with Bertrand Piccard to make the Solar Impulse 2 Project a reality, is the man behind the controls and  is expected to pilot the plane for about 18 hours.

The aircraft has once been grounded due to damaged batteries when it was already halfway through it's 21,700 mile sojourn, and had taken about four months to be brought back to shape. The damage was said to have been caused by high temperatures during a 4,000 mile flight between Japan and Hawaii.

The journey had kicked off in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirate in March, 2015.