Posts on ‘December 22nd, 2009’

Pushing technological limits: Around the world in a solar airplane

In 1999, Bertrand Piccard — Swiss psychiatrist and aeronaut – completed the first non-stop circumnavigation of the Earth in an air balloon. Right after this feat was born his idea for the Solar Impulse project: to create an aircraft that will fly day and night propelled only by solar energy. No fuel, no pollution.
 Never before [...]