Bertrand Piccard is no stranger to achieving the improbable. In 1999, ... As with Solar Impulse, Piccard plans to use the nine-day flight to talk to schools, governments, ...

The latest adventure of Bertrand Piccard was Solar Impulse, the unprecedented round-the-world flight in a solar-powered airplane. An achievement directly in line with those of his grandfather Auguste, ...

UN Environment Programme’s Goodwill Ambassador Bertrand Piccard, who was responsible for Solar Impulse, the first successful round-the-world solar-powered flight, talks about the power of ...

Bertrand Piccard, who co-led the Solar Impulse project that completed the first round-the-world flight on solar power in 2016, has launched a new initiative, Climate Impulse, to attempt the first ...

But Solar Impulse faced pessimism too, he added, and Piccard’s team has “proven it can do what people would consider impossible.” Keaten reported from Lausanne, Switzerland.

This Solar-Powered Plane Can Now Fly Around The World With No Fuel. Fueled by thin solar panels that cover its 236-foot-long wings, the Solar Impulse 2 will soon make its daring round-the-world ...

Bertrand Piccard, co-founder of the Solar Impulse Foundation, thinks they can. A third-generation explorer, he was the first person to fly a plane around the world, powered only by the sun’s energy.

UN Environment Programme’s Goodwill Ambassador Bertrand Piccard, who was responsible for Solar Impulse, the first successful round-the-world solar-powered flight, talks about the power of ...

UN Environment Programme’s Goodwill Ambassador Bertrand Piccard, who was responsible for Solar Impulse, the first successful round-the-world solar-powered flight, talks about the power of ...

UN Environment Programme’s Goodwill Ambassador Bertrand Piccard, who was responsible for Solar Impulse, the first successful round-the-world solar-powered flight, talks about the power of ...

UN Environment Programme’s Goodwill Ambassador Bertrand Piccard, who was responsible for Solar Impulse, the first successful round-the-world solar-powered flight, talks about the power of ...