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The plane solar-broke record-breaking flight across the Pacific
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01 Jun 2015 03:32:00
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The plane solar-broke record-breaking flight across the Pacific

Photo: Reuters"We did everything we could," wrote one of the team members.

Plane solar-powered "solar Impulse 2" (Solar Impulse 2) making a trip around the world, interrupted the flight across the Pacific ocean due to bad weather conditions.

Photo: Reuters
Photos: Reuters

Aircraft forced landed in Nagoya, Japan after 36 hours of flight over the Pacific ocean. It was expected that the transoceanic portion of the route from China to Hawaii will take six days and will be a record distance for this type of aircraft.
 
"We did everything we could, - wrote in his Twitter Bertrand Piccard (Bertrand Piccard), one of the pilots of the aircraft, which followed the flight control center in Monaco. - to Control the weather we can't".

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