• The Solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft prepares to take off from Cairo International Airport. Khaled Desouki / AFP
    The Solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft prepares to take off from Cairo International Airport. Khaled Desouki / AFP
  • The Solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 prepares to take off from the Cairo International Airport. Khaled Desouki / AFP
    The Solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 prepares to take off from the Cairo International Airport. Khaled Desouki / AFP
  • Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard prepares for the take-off from Cairo International Airport. Jean Revillard / EPA / REZO / Solar Impulse
    Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard prepares for the take-off from Cairo International Airport. Jean Revillard / EPA / REZO / Solar Impulse
  • Mr Piccard prepares to take off from Cairo as the solar-powered plane begins its final leg of its round-the-world journey. Jean Revillard / EPA / REZO / Solar Impulse
    Mr Piccard prepares to take off from Cairo as the solar-powered plane begins its final leg of its round-the-world journey. Jean Revillard / EPA / REZO / Solar Impulse
  • Technicians prepare the Solar Impulse 2 before its take off from Cairo International Airport. Jean Revillard / EPA / REZO / Solar Impulse
    Technicians prepare the Solar Impulse 2 before its take off from Cairo International Airport. Jean Revillard / EPA / REZO / Solar Impulse
  • Pilot Bertrand Piccard talks to media before his take-off in the Solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft from the Cairo International Airport. Khaled Desouki / AFP
    Pilot Bertrand Piccard talks to media before his take-off in the Solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft from the Cairo International Airport. Khaled Desouki / AFP
  • Mr Piccard speaks ahead of his flight to Abu Dhabi from Cairo. Khaled Desouki / AFP
    Mr Piccard speaks ahead of his flight to Abu Dhabi from Cairo. Khaled Desouki / AFP
  • Solar Impulse 2 takes off from Cairo International Airport with Bertrand Piccard at the controls and heading for Abu Dhabi. Jean Revillard / EPA / REZO / Solar Impulse
    Solar Impulse 2 takes off from Cairo International Airport with Bertrand Piccard at the controls and heading for Abu Dhabi. Jean Revillard / EPA / REZO / Solar Impulse
  • Solar Impulse 2 takes off from the Cairo International Airport to complete the final leg in its round-the-world tour. Khaled Desouki / AFP
    Solar Impulse 2 takes off from the Cairo International Airport to complete the final leg in its round-the-world tour. Khaled Desouki / AFP

Environment

Solar Impulse 2 takes off for Abu Dhabi in final leg of circumnavigation — in pictures

Rob Gurdebeke

July 24, 2016

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Solar impulse 2 has taken off for the final time on its historic round-the-world trip using nothing but the power of the sun.

Piloted by the project's co-founder, Bertrand Piccard, Solar impulse 2 left Cairo at 3am UAE time and is expected to arrive in Al Bateen Airport in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.

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