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A sun-powered airplane has landed in Hawaii after a five-day journey from Japan that smashed the previous record of 76 hours for the longest duration nonstop solo flight.

set the Solar Impulse 2 down on the tarmac at Kalaeloa Airport

 outside Honolulu after flying for 120 hours from Nagoya, his team reports.

As 

 wrote last week, the Japan-to-Hawaii leg is the 13th stage of a planned circumnavigation for Solar Impulse.


Borschberg is flying every other leg, alternating with Bertrand Piccard, who in 1999 completed a first-ever non-stop balloon circumnavigation.

U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett, who died in a plane accident in 2007, set the previous record of 76 hours the year before his death when he flew the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer around the globe in 2006.

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A sun-powered airplane landed in Hawaii after a five-day journey from Japan that smashed the previous record of 76 hours for the longest duration nonstop solo flight.

Pilot in solar-powered plane sets aviation record

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