The Swiss-built Solar Impulse plane completed the second leg of its round-the-world journey on Tuesday in Ahmedabad, India, after flying for more than 15 hours from Oman.
The solar-powered, single-seat craft took off amid the morning haze at Muscat International Airport in Oman, at 6:36 a.m. local time (10:36 p.m. ET Monday).
"Fantastic feeling," pilot Bertrand Piccard said as he headed down the runway.
The trip ended after dark in Ahmedabad, about 910 miles (1,468 kilometers) away, at 11:25 p.m. local time (1:55 p.m. ET Tuesday). Solar Impulse claimed a couple of firsts for this flight: the longest "pre-declared" straight distance flown by a solar-powered plane, and the first piloted solar-powered plane to fly in Asia
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