Approximately 10 hours ago, André Borschberg set the record for the longest solo flight as he piloted Solar Impuse across the Pacific as part of that team's effort at circumnavigating the globe in a solar-powered craft. The previous record had been set in an around-the-world flight by Steve Fossett in a conventionally powered aircraft. The original plan had been to fly Solar Impulse to Hawaii from China, but changing weather conditions forced the curtailment of the first flight, rerouting the destination to Nagoya, Japan.