The experimental aircraft took off from Seville at 6:20 AM (0420 GMT) for a flight that should last about 50 hours and will take it over the Mediterranean Sea. Swiss aviator Andre Boschberg before embarking on the Solar Impulse2, to Cairo, Egypt, from the San Pablo airport in Seville, Spain. The Solar Impulse 2 left southern Spain on Monday on its way to Egypt for the penultimate leg of the solar-powered airplane’s landmark round-the-world journey. The... 

SEVILLE: The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Spain today morning after completing a 70-hour flight from New York in the first solo transatlantic crossing in a solar-powered airplane. Applause broke out as the experimental plane set down at Seville airport in southern Spain just before 7:40 am where a team was on the ground to welcome Swiss pilot and adventurer Bertrand Piccard, an AFP correspondent said. The sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft lands at...