GenevaLunch » Bertrand Piccard http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Solar Impulse pilot clocks extraordinary 18 hours to Madridhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/25/solar-impulse-pilot-clocks-extraordinary-18-hours-to-madrid/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/25/solar-impulse-pilot-clocks-extraordinary-18-hours-to-madrid/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 10:34:41 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70525 GenevaLunch.com Swiss pioneering plane hosted by Morocco as construction begins on world’s largest thermo-solar power plant LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – André Borschberg flew Solar Impulse for 17h 3min 59s Thursday 24 May, to land the experimental solar plane at Madrid’s Barajas airport. He flew from the Payerne aerodrome in Switzerland over the Massif Central towards the city [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/25/solar-impulse-pilot-clocks-extraordinary-18-hours-to-madrid/feed/ 0 Solar Impulse gets a lift from new partner Schindlerhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/24/solar-impulse-gets-a-lift-from-new-partner-schindler/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/24/solar-impulse-gets-a-lift-from-new-partner-schindler/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:21:19 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55688 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Solar Impulse, the Swiss solar plane that aims to be the first to fly night and day without fuel or polluting emissions, has been given a major boost from one of the world’s major elevator/lift and escalator companies, Schindler. The Lucerne-based manufacturer this week becomes the fourth main partner for the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/24/solar-impulse-gets-a-lift-from-new-partner-schindler/feed/ 0 Solar Impulse, up and flying again (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/21/solar-impulse-up-and-flying-again-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/21/solar-impulse-up-and-flying-again-update/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:30:27 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=47303 GenevaLunch.com Update 13:15  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Solar Impulse is flying again! Bertrand Piccard’s plane took off Tuesday 21 September at 08:00 from Payerne, canton Vaud and landed safely in Geneva at 12:25. If the weather holds and the control tower at Cointrin Airport gives the go-ahead, the plane is expected to leave Geneva at 15:30 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/21/solar-impulse-up-and-flying-again-update/feed/ 2 Solar Impulse takes to the air (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/07/solar-impulse-takes-to-the-air/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/07/solar-impulse-takes-to-the-air/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:02:59 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=39868 GenevaLunch.com Update 13:05 Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The weather was beautiful, the mood upbeat – and the plane flew, just as everyone was hoping it would. Solar Impulse, the first plane designed to fly night and day without fossil fuels, slowly climbed 1,200 metres into the air Wednesday 7 April at 10:27 and flew for the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/07/solar-impulse-takes-to-the-air/feed/ 4 Solar plane will take to the air Wednesdayhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/06/solar-plane-will-take-to-the-air-wednesday/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/06/solar-plane-will-take-to-the-air-wednesday/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:23:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=39828 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Solar Impulse, the wide-winged Swiss plane that is the world’s first designed to fly night and day without fuel or polluting emissions, will take to the air for the first time tomorrow, Wednesday 7 April. The aircraft has a wingspan comparable to that of an Airbus A340 (63.4 m) and a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/06/solar-plane-will-take-to-the-air-wednesday/feed/ 0 Solar Impulse gets green light for night flightshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/17/solar-impulse-gets-green-light-for-night-flights/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/17/solar-impulse-gets-green-light-for-night-flights/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:19:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=37321 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss federal government has approved a new flying ordinance that will allow pioneering solar plane Solar Impulse to take to the skies at night around Payerne, in canton Vaud. Flights are normally banned between 06:00 and 22:00 in Switzerland, but the new ordinance, which applies only to Solar Impulse, will [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/17/solar-impulse-gets-green-light-for-night-flights/feed/ 0 Solar Impulse lifts off the groundhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/03/solar-impulse-lifts-off-the-ground/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/03/solar-impulse-lifts-off-the-ground/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:14:33 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=33018 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Solar Impulse hopped off the ground for the first time Thursday 3 December, flying 350 metres at an altitude of one metre. The team that has been building the plane broke into wild applause at the Duebendorf airport near Zurich. The airplane, designed to be the first to fly night and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/03/solar-impulse-lifts-off-the-ground/feed/ 0 Solar Impulse moves from the lab to testinghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/23/solar-impulse-moves-from-the-lab-to-testing/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/23/solar-impulse-moves-from-the-lab-to-testing/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:05:16 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=30257 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Solar Impulse is moving out of the hangar near Zurich where it has been undergoing months of fine-tuning. The solar airplane’s engineering team turned over the plane officially to the test team Monday 19 October and ground testing is now beginning, under the direction of Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier. The airplane, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/23/solar-impulse-moves-from-the-lab-to-testing/feed/ 0 Flying without fuel: emission-free Solar Impulse unveiledhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/27/fuel-less-and-emission-free-solar-impulse-unveiledflying-without-fuel-emission-free-solar-impulse-unveiled/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/27/fuel-less-and-emission-free-solar-impulse-unveiledflying-without-fuel-emission-free-solar-impulse-unveiled/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:07:37 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=21213 GenevaLunch.com The balloon convinced Piccard to find a zero-fuel solution to flying

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/27/fuel-less-and-emission-free-solar-impulse-unveiledflying-without-fuel-emission-free-solar-impulse-unveiled/feed/ 7 Swiss explorer Jacques Piccard dies, age 86http://genevalunch.com/blog/2008/11/03/swiss-explorer-jacques-piccard-dies-age-86/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2008/11/03/swiss-explorer-jacques-piccard-dies-age-86/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:47:13 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=7026 GenevaLunch.com Professor Jacques Piccard, explorer and inventor, died at his home on the banks of Lake Geneva 1 November, aged 86. The death was announced by his son, explorer Bertrand Piccard, and the other two children of Jacques Piccard, Marie-Laure and Thierry. Jacques Piccard, born in Brussels in 1922, was the son of the noted Swiss [...]

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