After being grounded in Hawaii due to damaged power banks in July, the solar powered plane is back in the air again after a €20 million injection in funding.
Pilots Borschberg and Piccard have been present this week at the Paris climate summit talks and have said they will look to take off again in early 2016. The plane has had backing from a number of companies including power grid maker ABB.
Solar Impulse
The Solar Impulse 2 plane has been specially designed to undertake a substantial amount of flying and has 17,248 solar cells, with a wider wingspan than a Boeing 747 and weighs the same as a fiver-seater family car.
Borschberg is planning the Hawaii to North America 2,500-mile journey in April when there will be more daylight hours to hopefully recharge the batteries more sufficiently.
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