WASHINGTON: A solar-powered plane flew out of Dulles International Airport on Saturday en route to New York City on the final leg of a history-making cross-country US tour.
Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard is flying the experimental solar aircraft across America.
The flight plan for the revolutionary plane takes it past the Statue of Liberty before landing at New York’s JFK Airport early Sunday, Associated Press reported.
The aircraft, powered by some 11,000 solar cells, soars to 30,000 feet while poking along at a top speed of 45mph. The Solar Impulse left San Francisco in early May and has made stopovers in Phoenix, Dallas-Fort Worth, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Dulles.
The cross-country flight is a tune-up for a planned 2015 flight around the globe with an up-graded version of the plane.
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