Logbook
24/04 - 2016
From the cockpit above the Golden Gate Bridge
From the cockpit of #Si2, #SanFrancisco and the Golden Gate, land of pioneers! pic.twitter.com/bi8H0I81bI — Bertrand PICCARD (@bertrandpiccard) April 24, 2016 - read more
Logbook
23/04 - 2016
A tribute to pioneering spirit
Today's flight is a tribute to the work of my father Jacques Piccard. He was a real pioneer of marine ecology who worked to preserve the oceans and the lakes. In 1960, he dove to Challenger Deep with his... - read more
Logbook
23/04 - 2016
Beside Dick Rutan, Steve Fossett, Andre Borschberg and me, which airplane pilot can say: " this is my second night airborne in the same flight"? Bertrand - read more
Logbook
22/04 - 2016
It’s the first sunset of my flight. Until now I had all the energy I wanted from the sun, but now, for the next 12 hours, I’ll need to save the energy of my batteries as much as I can to survive until... - read more
Logbook
12/04 - 2016
How Clean Technologies Can Improve Health Worldwide
A guest post from Bertrand Piccard, Initiator, Chairman, and Pilot of Solar Impulse and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador Humans have always been conquerors. But after continents, oceans, the skies and the... - read more
Logbook
05/04 - 2016
Some of our dreams do come true. And I’m not talking about my dream of becoming an explorer after having met most of the Nasa astronauts in Cape Kennedy during my childhood. No, it’s something else. At... - read more
News
24/04 - 2016
We completed the Pacific Crossing!
Bertrand Piccard just pushed through the night sky, gently kissing the runway with a smooth landing at Moffett Airfield, California. The transition from the gentle wonders of the sky to the shared elation... - read more
News
24/04 - 2016
Live conversation between Peter Maurer
The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer was live connected with Bertrand Piccard during the Solar Impulse's flight from Hawaii to Moutain View, California ... - read more
News
23/04 - 2016
LIVE conversation between Bertrand Piccard and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
Bertrand Piccard just hung up his headset inside the Si2 cockpit. On the other end of the line, there was a room filled with over 500 World Leaders watching Bertrand in the cockpit and listening to a conversation... - read more
News
22/04 - 2016
Cocoa Over the Pacific: Si2 in the Footsteps of Amelia Earhart
In the hours before Amelia Earhart took off to attempt the first-ever solo flight between Hawaii and California, she stood on a wet runway, next to a wet airplane, looking out at a weather window that... - read more
News
21/04 - 2016
Bertrand Piccard resumes the Mission: takeoff from Hawaii
Like the rising sun, the Solar Impulse 2 airplane rose from the tarmac at Kalaeloa Airport with Bertrand Piccard in the cockpit. However, just like the setting sun, it grew smaller and smaller, disappearing... - read more
News
20/04 - 2016
Takeoff from Hawaii scheduled, finally!
We knew this day would come where we can finally say: tomorrow we will be taking off. After 9 months having put our round-the-world solar flights on hold because of a battery complication during the 5... - read more
News
14/04 - 2016
Solar Impulse re-enters ‘Mission Mode’
Before every great takeoff, there is a moment of hesitancy, -of trepidation, -of uncertainty. That might perturb some, but it is this sensation that the Solar Impulse team lives for. Now, we are stepping... - read more
News
10/04 - 2016
Busy bees at work for Bertrand’s training flight
Looking out of his cockpit window, Bertrand Piccard was in awe once again. In the Pacific Ocean below, a pod of dolphins flew out of the water. Our pilot frantically looked around to see if he could spot... - read more
News
01/04 - 2016
André Borschberg Returns to the Hawaiian Skies
It’s been nine months since André Borschberg emerged, stiff-legged, from his record-breaking, 117-hour stint aboard Solar Impulse. Not that you’d notice. In his first training flights of 2016, Borschberg... - read more
