Inside the year 1999 history was made when Bertrand Piccard created the very first non-stop journey around the globe inside a hot air balloon. Eleven years later; Piccard is creating history once more as the Co-founder with the Eco-friendly Solar Impulse; that is a Switzerland led solar powered airplane development project. The recently debuted carbon fiber Solar Impulse airplane has officially ushered in a complete new Green era of cutting edge solar powering technologies. The power efficient Solar Impulse airplane triumphantly glided in to the Payerne airfield in Switzerland; making it the first airplane to ever full a 24 hour non-stop flight; fueled only by the organic power of sunlight.

CEO and pilot Andre Borschberg performed the Eco-friendly Solar Impulse test flight; putting to action those advanced energy efficient solar technologies that he, Piccard and their team had developed. The advanced technologies designed into the Green Solar Impulse airplane needed …