Bertrand Piccard
Bertrand Piccard
Bertrand Piccardis a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist. Along with Brian Jones, he was the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe. He is the initiator, chairman, and co-pilot of the first successful round-the-world solar flight...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth1 March 1958
CountrySwitzerland
airplane beautiful came flying fuel future message solar technology terms
I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment.
dream innovation fuel
We know that dreams fuel innovation.
deepest diving point saw
When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
fastidious people
Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps... People don't understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do.
people
People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.
inspire aviation should
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
father ocean adventure
My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.
moving feet air
I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.
airplane angel
I am with the angels and just completely happy.
airplane done way
The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done it.
night another-day flight
Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.
beautiful islands desert
A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'
habit reacting interest
Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.
health space quality
Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life.