Solar Impulse across America
details
- Production
- 2015, France
- Original language
- Running time
- 52:00:00
- Genre
- documentary
- Topic
- wildlife
- Directed by
- Eric Beaufils
- Member page
- Gédéon programmes
Solar Impulse is the only airplane of perpetual endurance, able to fly day and night on solar power, without a drop of fuel. After completing several missions in Europe and Morocco, and before its attempt of the First Round-The-World Solar Flight in 2015, Solar Impulse has completed the historic crossing of the United States, west to east, over a 2-month period in the summer of 2013. In the footsteps of aviation pioneers like the Wright brothers and Charles Lindbergh, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg underwent the coast-to-coast challenge, namely 5600 kms, to spread a message. By flying from San Francisco to New York powered solely by the sun, the two pilots could demonstrate how pioneering spirit, innovation and clean technologies can change the world. This documentary-film is the story of their incredible American epic.