Soaring high on alternatives: Switzerland's Bertrand Piccard plans to fly around the world on a solar-powered flight in 2010. Swiss News gets the inside story from 'Solar Impulse' and looks at energy alternatives like solar power.

Swiss News › Nbr. 2005, January 2005

Author: Sethi, Aradhna

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Soaring high on alternatives: Switzerland's Bertrand Piccard plans to fly around the world on a solar-powered flight in 2010. Swiss News gets the inside story from 'Solar Impulse' and looks at energy alternatives like solar power.

Bertrand Piccard is hitting the international headlines again. Late in March 1999, he and Brian Jones made history as the first duo to complete the first trip around the world in a hot air balloon--the Breitling Orbiter 3.

"The balloon flight was the culmination of a childhood dream," he told Rosmarie Gerber of KMU Manager last mont...

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