Estimated reading time 1 minute, 16 seconds.
Si2 landed at Tulsa International Airport, Okla., on May 12 after an 18-hour, 10-minute, and 975.55-mile flight from Phoenix Goodyear Airport, Ariz. Solar Impulse Photo
Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) landed at Tulsa International Airport, Okla., with Bertrand Piccard at the controls, on May 12 at 11:15 p.m. local time (UTC-5) after taking off from Phoenix Goodyear Airport, Ariz., the same morning at 3:05 a.m. local time (UTC-7). The flight, that took 18 hours, 10 minute, and 975.55 miles (1,570 kilometres) at a maximum altitude of 22,000 feet and average speed of 53.68 miles per hour (86.40 kilometres per hour), 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.
As soon as possible, weather permitting, André Borschberg will pilot Si2 to the next stop-over and continue the crossing of the United States.
