Solar Impulse 2 lands in Dayton, Ohio – next stop Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania

Dayton, Ohio – Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) with André Borschberg as pilot landed at Dayton International Airport at 1:56am UTC, on May 22, 2016, and 9:56pm EDT on May 21, 2016. The solar-powered aircraft left Tulsa International Airport at 9:22am UTC, 4:22am CDT on May 21, 2016, for a flight that lasted a total of 16 hours and 34 minutes. Bertrand Piccard welcomed his colleague to the home city of the Wright Brothers with a miniature replica of the Wright Flyer. Strong tailwinds helped Si2 reach Dayton about a half-hour ahead of schedule, and just behind persistent rain.

 

Piccard plans to take off in Si2 for the fifth leg of the crossing of the United States to Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, on May 24, 2016, at 10:00am UTC, 6:00am EDT. The flight is expected to last 17 hours. The next step will be to reach New York City.

 

The team spent more than a week waiting out storms at the Tulsa International Airport in Oklahoma, where Piccard landed at 11:15pm local time on May 12, 2016. He left Phoenix, Arizona, Goodyear Airport earlier that day for a flight that lasted 18 hours and 10 minutes.