On board is also a 400- pound battery that allows the engine to operate at night.

Manned solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse landed safely in the Moroccan capital Rabat , ending a record transcontinental flight.It is reported by Agence France-Presse.The plane is running a psychiatrist and explorer Bertrand Picard sat at the international airport of Rabat on Tuesday at twenty-three:thirty local time (two:thirty Moscow time) .During the trip the delegation observed the Moroccan Agency for solar energy.Solar Impulse has overcome some two,five hundred kilometers in the air after spending nearly forty-eight hours.This is the longest flight in the history of manned solar-powered devices .The flight began May twenty-four, two thousand and twelve in the Swiss Peyerne .The next day the plane arrived in the Spanish capital of Madrid, to pilot Andre Picard succeeded Borshbera .It was planned that a stop would take three days , but the flight was delayed due to adverse weather conditions, and the flight continued with a morning of June five.The next record for solar-powered airplane must be round trip , which will go to the upgraded model of Solar Impulse.Recall the outer surfaces of the aircraft has more than twelve,zero solar panels that supply energy for four screw motor ten horsepower .On board is also a four hundred- pound battery that allows the engine to operate at night.Wingspan is Solar Impulse sixty-three.four meters and the weight of the device - only one.six tons.