Solar plane powers on over Atlantic after turbulence
 

MADRID: The Solar Impulse 2 plane went through “a long night of turbulence” over the Atlantic, its weary pilot said on Wednesday as he continued on the challenging leg of its sun-powered trip around the world.

The experimental plane, which took off from New York’s John F. Kennedy airport on Monday, is flying over the Atlantic at the hands of Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard and is due to land in Spain’s southern Seville airport early on Thursday.

By around 1100 GMT on Wednesday, the aircraft -- which is powered in the night sky by energy supplied by its 17,000 photovoltaic cells -- had completed three-quarters of its 6,000-kilometre flight across the Atlantic.

“After a long night of turbulence and little sleep, I see the first light of the day,” Piccard tweeted earlier on Wednesday. “Awake and enjoying the Atlantic even after 51 hours of flight.

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