Setback for Solar Impulse
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The most challenging leg of Solar Impulse 2鈥檚 landmark flight around the world powered only by the sun was delayed yesterday due to concerns about the weather, organizers said.
The single-seater aircraft was due to leave Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu Province, for the 8,500 kilometer flight over the Pacific Ocean to the US island of Hawaii in the early hours of the morning.
But the much-anticipated seventh and longest section of the maiden solar-powered global circumnavigation was delayed once again due to concerns about the weather.
鈥淭he flight that we鈥檝e been looking forward to tonight is not going to happen,鈥 Solar Impulse spokesman Connor Lennon said in a video post on the group鈥檚 YouTube channel.
Mission director Raymond Clerc said cloud cover over Nanjing and the Sea of Japan made take-off difficult and the journey would have taken an unacceptably long seven days and seven nights, two more than originally planned.
鈥淲e have big problems that added (together) make the risk too high,鈥 he said.
Solar Impulse 2 has already spent nearly two months in China after arriving the southwestern city of Chongqing from Myanmar on March 31, where it was also held up for weeks by weather issues.
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