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Solar powered plane completes global tour

Piloted by Swiss aviator Andre Borschbergm, the aircraft land in Abu Dubai, where the challenged to tour the globe began in March 2015.

Piloted by Swiss aviator Andre Borschbergm, the aircraft took off from Spain's Seville International Airport at 04:20 GMT on Monday

Solar Impulse 2 landed in Egypt's capital, Cairo on Wednesday, July 13 after a 51-hour flight from Spain in a penultimate flight.

The adventure is to encourage people to promote clean and renewable energies.

Solar Impulse 2 has a wingspan of 72 meters, 12 meters longer than that of Boeing 747, but weighs only 2.3 tonne.  Equipped with 17,248 solar cells, the zero-fuel plane runs on stored energy at night.

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