The sun-controlled Solar Impulse 2 plane landed securely early Saturday in New York City, its last U.S. destination in a more than year-long trek far and wide.
Not having any desire to miss the highlights of The City That Never Sleeps, pilot Andre Borschberg brought in the sights with a speedy twist around New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty before arriving at JFK International Airport. The flight from Allentown, Pa., took around five hours.
Pilots and Swiss explorers Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard set out to circumnavigate the globe a year ago in the plane without utilizing fuel or regurgitating dirtying outflows. The two pilots substitute legs of the voyage.
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