\"The Atlantic is always the symbolic flight for all the means of transportation and today it becomes a symbolic flight for energy vision,\" Piccard told ABC News before he took off from New York City. \"It is the first time an airplane flying solar -- that means with electric engines, zero emissions, zero fuel -- is attempting to cross this ocean from America to Europe, so it is extremely exciting for all of us.\"
The two pilots expect to complete their around-the-world journey this summer in Abu Dhabi -- where the voyage began in March 2015. They expect to have about three more flights before completing their circumnavigation of the globe.
A departure date hasn't been set yet for the next leg, which Borschberg will fly, however Solar Impulse's team expects the next destination will be Greece or Egypt.
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