Bertrand Piccard: ‘If You Can Fly Around the World in a Solar Airplane, You Can Do Everything’

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By info@greentechmedia.comSep 26, 2018, 5:00 am29 pts
This week on Watt It Takes: Why one man spent 15 years of his life obsessed with flying a solar airplane around the world. We'll hear from Bertrand Piccard, a Swiss-balloonist-turned-futurist who co-piloted Solar Impulse, the first solar-electric airplane to navigate the globe. Piccard's mission was to do the…

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