{"id":1856,"date":"2010-09-25T08:54:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T15:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2010-11-20T17:46:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T00:46:21","slug":"solar-impulse-%e2%80%93-swiss-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/solar-impulse-%e2%80%93-swiss-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Impulse \u2013 Swiss Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andre\u2019 Borschberg, CEO of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarimpulse.com\/nightFlights\/sitv\/index.php?lang=en\">Solar Impulse project<\/a>, has been flying the giant airplane over many scenic and civic sites in Switzerland, crossing from its home field at Payerne to Geneva International Airport on September 21, and then returning the same day to Payerne.\u00a0 The next day, Borschberg cruised to Zurich International Airport and returned to the plane\u2019s home base.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Flight Geneva Airport - Solar Impulse 1 Swiss Flights\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PZYpn_KeV3Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As quoted in the project\u2019s press release, Borschberg was happy about the chance to view Switzerland from his rare and lofty perch.\u00a0 \u201c\u2019These flights are just amazing! Thanks to the plane\u2019s low speed, I was able to discover Switzerland from a completely new angle, fully taking in the beauty of our country!\u2019 said Andr\u00e9 Borschberg, CEO and Co-founder of Solar Impulse, from the cockpit of HB SIA in Zurich. \u2018The Swiss solar flights represent a major step forward for our team, taking us away from our customary airspace. We have learned to work together with international airports, merging in with the heavy Swiss air traffic. Our next step will be an international flight, but that\u2019s for next year!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides giving team pilots a chance to mix it up with Airbus\u2019s and Boeings at the county\u2019s major airports, and to overfly such scenic attractions as the Swiss Parliament Building and the Chateau de Chillon, an inspiration for authors such as Lord Byron, Shelley, and Mark Twain, the flights are being put to good use for education and creative motivation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Flight Ch\u00e2teau de Chillon - Solar Impulse 1 Swiss Flights\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RCu9MpJsJgw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Bertrand Piccard, President of Solar Impulse, says, \u201cUsing the solar plane as a symbol, our goal is to promote the pioneering spirit in young people, making them aware of the importance of renewable energy, energy saving and new technologies (CleanTechs).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swiss students will be able to participate with monthly web-based online lectures and a competition to \u201creward environmental projects \u2018Climate Pioneers\u2019. \u00a0In addition, an education kit is now downloadable from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarimpulse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.solarimpulse.com<\/a> website and [a] 3D animated visit of the airplane is also available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Despite the project&#8217;s description of these flights as the first solar-powered flights over Switzerland, we must note that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fai.org\/sunseeker_news_0509\">Eric Raymond <\/a>crossed Switzerland on his way to Italy and later\u00a0topped the Matterhorn (a lifelong dream of his) in Sunseeker II last year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"facebook_like\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fcafe.foundation%2Fblog%2Fsolar-impulse-%25e2%2580%2593-swiss-pride%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=500&amp;action=like&amp;font=segoe+ui&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:500px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andre\u2019 Borschberg, CEO of the Solar Impulse project, has been flying the giant airplane over many scenic and civic sites in Switzerland, crossing from its home field at Payerne to Geneva International Airport on September 21, and then returning the same day to Payerne.\u00a0 The next day, Borschberg cruised to Zurich International Airport and returned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[98,137,766,159,770,769,767,768,765,161,771],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-electric_powerplants","category-sustainable_ga","tag-andre-borschberg","tag-bertrand-piccard","tag-chateau-de-chillon","tag-eric-raymond","tag-geneva","tag-lord-byron","tag-mark-twain","tag-shelley","tag-solar-impulse-project","tag-sunseeker-ii","tag-zurich"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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