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Thu, May 12, 2016

Solar Impulse En Route To Tulsa, OK

Expected To Arrive Around 2300 Local Time Tonight

Solar Impulse 2 took off from the Phoenix Goodyear Airport, Arizona, with Bertrand Piccard at the controls, on May 12 at 3:05am local time (UTC-7) and is expected to land at Tulsa International Airport, Oklahoma on the same day at around 11:00pm local time (UTC-5) after an 18 hour flight.

The flight 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.

The plane arrived at Phoenix Goodyear Airport on May 2 following a flight from Moffett Airfield in Mountain View, California. That flight took 15 hours and 52 minutes.

The team waited over a week for an acceptable weather window for today's flight. "Very happy to continue the adventure today," André Borschberg posted on the Solar Impulse website. "What is so special with Solar Impulse is that we have been preparing for years but still face unexpected situations and solutions: Tulsa is a completely new solution we found!"

(Image captured from Solar Impulse 2 on departure from Phoenix)

FMI: www.solarimpulse.com/leg-11-from-Phoenix-to-Tulsa

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