No, Not That One
The first extended test of the Solar Impulse, a solar powered aircraft, has been completed. When all of the tests are completed a second, improved model will be constructed that Bertrand Piccard hopes to use to fly around the world, non-stop.
Bertrand Piccard was the first to fly a balloon non-stop around the world, and is the son of Jacques Piccard, the designer of the bathysphere, Trieste, in which he descended to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
When Jacques made his descent, his father, August, held the altitude record for balloons, so the height and depth records were held by the same family.
Even small countries, like Switzerland, can do interesting things. Too bad that some big countries have given up trying.
