Solar Impulse makes unscheduled stop in Nagoya due to bad weather

Solar Impulse 2 weighs 1,600 kg. For the non-metric, that's about two kites.

Welcome (back) to Japan, Andre Borschberg. If you had to make an unscheduled landing, I'm glad it was here. It is exciting that Japan gets the opportunity to host you.

Finally, best of luck over the rest of your mission.

Sensenotsocommon Yeah. I remember about that 700KG kite

For the non-metric, that's about two kites.

@SenseNotSoCommon

Good one. That was a great laugh for the day.

So I wonder how much fossil fuel has been spent to get the very much needed support crew where they need to be? One small step for man, one giant leap backwards.

So much for progress. This is a great leap into the 19th century. Have we not discovered more efficient sources of energy?

Stopover Nagoya!

The Space Shuttle had multiple emergency landing sites scattered around the world.

Could the Solar Impulse not carry a database of islands other than Hawaii's to land on, as well as real-time positions of oceangoing freighters to land near, in case of a water landing? And plot in real time a primary course and several backup courses threading various combinations of islands and ships?

All they have to do is wait until the rainy season passes.