Solar-powered plane heading toward California
KAPOLEI, Hawaii - The pilot of a solar plane trying to circumnavigate the globe says he has passed the point of no return after departing Hawaii and is forging forward over the Pacific Ocean toward California.Pilot Bertrand Piccard posted a picture on the voyage's website of chunks of ice in the northern Pacific as he pulls farther away from Hawaii, where he took off Thursday.The Swiss-made Solar Impulse 2 is expected to reach Mountain View, California sometime this weekend.The plane is
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