Solar Impulse 2 Leaves Chongqing For Nanjing

CHONGQING, CHINA - APRIL 21: (CHINA OUT) Bertrand Piccard, a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist who initiated the Solar Impulse project, makes preparation before the solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2 taking off at Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport early Tuesday on April 21, 2015 in Chongqing, China. Solar Impulse 2, the first aircraft completely sustained by solar power, took off from Myanmar's second biggest city of Mandalay early Monday and after a 20-hour flight, the Solar Impulse 2 airplane touched down in south China's Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport and stayed at Chongqing, the fifth flight of a landmark journey to circumnavigate the globe powered solely by the sun, for twenty days. The Solar Impulse 2 has took off and headed for its sixth flight of China's Nanjing early on April 21. It was said that the whole flight of Solar Impulse 2 would last for five months in 12 stations. (Photo by Visual China Group via Getty Images/Visual China Group via Getty Images)