The First Solar Powered Flight Across the Atlantic

Bertrand Piccard is a dreamer. The Swiss psychiatrist, inspired by a family lineage of explorers and innovators, holds the record for the first nonstop balloon flight across the globe, with partner Brian Jones. Now, along with his partner André Borschberg, he also holds the distinction of completing the first ever TransAtlantic solar powered flight with the innovative experimental aircraft, Solar Impulse 2. WATCH NEXT America s ExDrone Pilot: Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: bit. l