Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg took off from Nanjing to Hawaii aboard the Solar Impulse 2 aircraft in the longest leg of the first round-the-world solar flight, Saturday.<br /><br />The 8,175-kilometre (5,079-mile) flight over the is expected to last for five days and five nights. It is the seventh of 12 flights of a five-month journey aboard the single-seater plane.<br /><br />RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air<br /><br />Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday<br /><br />Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews<br />Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com<br />Follow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/rt<br />Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT<br />Listen to us on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rttv<br /><br />RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark.