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A solar airplane has made by flying 6,500 kilometres from Japan to Hawaii. The is called Solar Impulse 2. Solar panels covering the plane convert the sun's into power. Maybe all airplanes in the will fly using solar power. Solar Impulse 2 landed after a 118-hour across the Pacific Ocean. Swiss Andre Borschberg tweeted about his . He wrote: "Just landed in Hawaii with Solar Impulse….It's a coming true." The flight broke the record for the longest journey made by a pilot in an unfuelled plane. The record was 76 hours.

Solar Impulse 2 is attempting to fly around the world using solar power. It started in Abu Dhabi in March. Its next will be Arizona in the USA. Then it will fly to New York, before heading to Europe and back to Abu Dhabi. The journey aims to raise about climate change and renewable . The Solar Impulse 2 co-pilot told the USA Today that: "The most thing isn't to make world records. It's to show what we can do with technologies." This is because airplanes create around 12% of the CO2 from all of transportation.

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