Solar Impulse 2 Leaves Arizona on Record-Breaking Flight

The Solar Impulse 2 plane took off from Phoenix. Arizona on the way to Oklahoma on Thursday, continuing its record-breaking mission to circle the globe without devouring a drop of fuel.

The trial sun based fueled flying machine, steered by Swiss traveler Bertrand Piccard, took off at 3:00 am (1000 GMT), live footage appeared, for the most recent phase of it's around the globe flight went for attracting consideration regarding clean vitality advances.

"Farewell Phoenix, thank you very much for your warm and well disposed welcome," Piccard tweeted from the cockpit.

The flight to the city of Tulsa has an obligation to take take 17 and a half hours.

The plane is placed at make maybe a couple more stops in the United States before at long last arriving in New York City, in the most recent leg of an adventure that commenced in Abu Dhabi on March 9, 2015.

"The goal is to achieve New York at the earliest opportunity!" The Solar Impulse 2 group said in an announcement Wednesday, despite the fact that it is not clear when the plane may reach there.

The airplane was founded on July a year ago when its batteries endured issues part of the way through its 21,700-mile (35,000-kilometer) circumnavigation.

The team took a while to repair the harm from high tropical temperatures amid the flight's final Pacific stage, a 4,000-mile (6,437-kilometer) flight between Nagoya, Japan and Hawaii.

The plane was flown on that phase by Piccard's colleague Andre Borschberg, whose 118-hour venture crushed the past record of 76 hours and 45 minutes set by US Traveler Steve Fossett in 2006.

Solar Impulse 2's wings, more extensive than those of a Boeing 747, contain 17,000 suns based cells that power the flying machine's propellers and charge batteries.

During the evening, the plane keeps running on put away vitality.

The run of the mill flight pace is around 30 miles (45 kilometers) 60 minutes, which can be increment to twofold that when presented to full daylight.

In the wake of intersection in the United States, the pilots are set to make a trans-Atlantic flight to Europe, from where they plan to advance back to their purpose of takeoff in Abu Dhabi.