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		</div><p>A solar-powered airplane has taken off from the Ohio home town of America aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright on the latest leg of its journey around the world.</p>
<p>The Swiss-made Solar Impulse 2 took off from Dayton International Airport just after 4am on Wednesday local time with a destination of Lehigh Valley International Airport in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The flight was expected to take about 17 hours.</p>
<p>The aircraft&#8217;s most recent journey came last weekend, when it travelled from Tulsa International Airport to Dayton. The plane&#8217;s departure from Dayton was delayed from Monday as project officials checked for possible damage after fans that keep the mobile hangar inflated had a power failure.</p>
<p>The plane was expected to make at least one more stop in the United States &#8211; in New York &#8211; before crossing the Atlantic Ocean to Europe or northern Africa.</p>
<p>The globe-circling voyage began in March 2015 from Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, and made stops in Oman, Burma, China and Japan.</p>
<p>The Solar Impulse 2&#8217;s wings, which stretch wider than those of a Boeing 747, are equipped with 17,000 solar cells that power propellers and charge batteries. The plane runs on stored energy at night.</p>
<p>Ideal flight speed is about 28 mph, although that can double during the day when the sun&#8217;s rays are strongest.</p>
<p>The plane had a five-day trip from Japan to Hawaii. The crew was forced to stay in Oahu, Hawaii, for nine months after the plane&#8217;s battery system sustained heat damage on its trip from Japan.</p>
<p>Solar Impulse 2 then had a three-day trip from Hawaii to California&#8217;s Silicon Valley. Since then, it has made trips from northern California to Phoenix, Arizona, then on to Tulsa, Oklahoma, before heading to Ohio.</p>
<p>The stops give the two Swiss pilots &#8211; Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg &#8211; a chance to swap places and engage with local communities along the way so they can explain the project, which is estimated to cost more than 100 million US dollars.</p>
<p>The solar project began in 2002 to highlight the importance of renewable energy and the spirit of innovation.</p>
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