Posted on 04/26/2016 8:47:34 PM PDT by Rabin
Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project, The privately financed project is led by Swiss engineer and businessman André Borschberg and Swiss psychiatrist and aeronaut Bertrand Piccard, who co-piloted Breitling Orbiter 3, the first balloon to circle the world non-stop. The Solar Impulse will to achieve the first circumnavigation of the Earth by a piloted fixed-wing aircraft using captured energy rather than recovered fuel. In March 2015, Piccard and Borschberg began to circumnavigate the globe with Solar Impulse 2, departing from Abu Dhabi. By June 2015, SI2 had traversed Asia, and notably, by July 2015, it completed the longest leg of its journey, from Japan to Hawaii. The Solar Impulse resumed the circumnavigation on 21 April 2016, landing near San Francisco, California, on April 23.
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If this is how far we can go, we are on par with muz.
Rab.
Are you drunk?
Are you jealous or concerned?
Interesting question.
It indicates you didn't understand my remark.
And that doesn't seem possible.
It indicates that you have no sense of humor.
Bertrand was a fine young man. He attended private school in Palm Beach county, Fla. during the couple of years his father was here working on the Ben Franklin project with Grumman...a small submarine which charted the Gulf Stream was built here and called the Ben Franklin. Knew the family well. Fine people.
Ah yes.
Humor.
Then there is the bashing of a LinkedIn© Pulse post being MSM propaganda - disparaging disgusting commercial spot proms when the purpose of LinkedIn is business networking and the Pulse platform in particular is for press releases and brag blogging.
I feel like shouting, "What's the frequency Kenneth!" You are trying to drive me just that crazy. ;^)
I first read the memoirs of the Kon-Tiki expedition in 1958 as a young lad of ten.
I could say it was a formative experience, but that would be lying.
I had a far more formative experience two years later with a girl named Melinda who is today an old Stada Baba.
His grandfather, Swiss physicist, Auguste Piccard was noted for setting the altitude record for balloon craft, taking it IIRC almost to the edge of the stratosphere. He then proceeded to explore in the opposite direction, constructing and diving to record depths in a bathyscape of his own design.
Auguste’s son, Jacques took his submersible, the Trieste, to set records in the Med and in his crowning achievement to the bottom of the Marianas Trench in the early sixties. The deepest manned dive possible. As a Scout and wannabe scuba diver, I was one of his fan boys.
Gene Roddenberry created the Captain Jean-Luc Piccard character to honor the real Piccard.
So the current Piccard is followingbin some very impressive family footprints.
Bon chance Bertrand!
For, $300 who is Marcus Aurelius?
Man in the Middle.
I knew the family well during their stay in America. The Ben Franklin was created to chart the Gulf Stream which had never been done. The underwater craft had been named after Ben Franklin who discovered the Gulf Stream. Knew all the men who created her. A lot was going on in the sixties.
Thanks Rabin. Title's a bit off, topic's a bit of a stretch, picture is nice at the link.
Thank goodness! I was starting to think I was the only one who was confused — or drunk....
Thanks for the new words.
My best to you, and Malinda.
I'm guessing she's a very young Stata Baba, and you much less finely, ahem, formed than used to was. ;-)
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