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Solar Impulse is the only airplane of perpetual endurance, able to fly day and night on solar power, without a drop of fuel.

The challenge is to attempt the First Round-The-World Solar Flight in 2015. A way for Bertrand Piccard, André Borschberg and their team to demonstrate how pioneering spirit, innovation and clean technologies can change the world.

The Little Prince, used to taking good care of his planet, choose to help the Solar Impulse staff. He went with them on the different travels of this amazing Round-the-world.

What is Solar Impulse ?

The only airplane of perpetual endurance, able to fly day and night on solar power, without a drop of fuel.

The challenge is to attempt the First Round-The-World Solar Flight in 2015. A way for Bertrand Piccard, André Borschberg and their team to demonstrate how pioneering spirit, innovation and clean technologies can change the world.

«Just imagine your energy reserves increasing during flight! To make this dream a reality, we had to make maximum use of every single watt supplied by the sun, storing any surplus in our batteries.» ANDRÉ BORSCHBERG

This new plane is entirely powered by sunlight !

The pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg already traveled across America, and now they are preparing to fly across the world. They will leave Abu Dhabi very soon !

Follow their adventures here 

Learn more about our partnership here 

On April 9, the whole Solar Impulse team will unveil the new version of the solar plane!

After years of design, complex simulations and test flights with the first prototype, Solar Impulse 2 will be presented to our partners, friends and media before undertaking, in 2015, the ultimate technological and symbolic adventure of flying around the world without fuel, only powered by the sun. Discover the airplane through a live online Google field trip, ask your questions to the Pilots and team… and join the adventure!

You can follow the event live on: www.solarimpulse.com

As you know, the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Youth Foundation and The Solar Impulse Foundation are joining in a partnership, in order to help the young, all over the world, to achieve great projects. (See more here).

To celebrate this new partnerships, let’s set up a big international contest !

Participate on our Facebook Page, and answer this question : What do you do for your planet ?  Send us pictures or vidéos of your eco-friendly actions, and win this collector badge ! The winners will be randomly selected. This contest will end on November the 10th.

If you want to be part of this dream, you can also help us by getting this badge.
Purchase this collector’s item today and help sponsor our Foundations!

“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 » Do you think that this sheep will have to have a great deal of grass?”

And you, what do you do for your planet? Send us your photos of green initiatives, and win  Solar Impulse badges!

Let’s set up a big international contest !

Participate on our Facebook Page, and answer this question : What do you do for your planet ?  Send us pictures or vidéos of your eco-friendly actions, and win this collector badge ! The winners will be randomly selected. This contest will end on November the 10th.

If you want to be part of this dream, you can also help us by getting this badge.
Purchase this collector’s item today and help sponsor our Foundations!

“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

« She’s the one that I have watered. She’s the one I put under glass.  I have sheltered her behind the screen. It is for her that I have killed the caterpillars.  »

And you, what do you do for your planet? Send us your photos of green initiatives, and win  Solar Impulse badges!

Let’s set up a big international contest !

Participate on our Facebook Page, and answer this question : What do you do for your planet ?  Send us pictures or vidéos of your eco-friendly actions, and win this collector badge ! The winners will be randomly selected. This contest will end on November the 10th.

If you want to be part of this dream, you can also help us by getting this badge.
Purchase this collector’s item today and help sponsor our Foundations!

“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

« He carefully cleaned out his active volcanoes. He possessed two active volcanoes. And it was very convenient for heating his breakfast in the morning »

And you, what do you do for your planet? Send us your photos of green initiatives, and win  Solar Impulse badges!

Let’s set up a big international contest !

Participate on our Facebook Page, and answer this question : What do you do for your planet ?  Send us pictures or vidéos of your eco-friendly actions, and win this collector badge ! The winners will be randomly selected. This contest will end on November the 10th.

If you want to be part of this dream, you can also help us by getting this badge.
Purchase this collector’s item today and help sponsor our Foundations!

“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

« Sometimes, there is no harm in postponing his work. But, in the case of baobabs, that always means a catastrophe. « 

And you, what do you do for your planet? Send us your photos of green initiatives, and earn badges Solar Impulse!

Let’s set up a big international contest !

Participate on our Facebook Page, and answer this question : What do you do for your planet ?  Send us pictures or vidéos of your eco-friendly actions, and win this collector badge ! The winners will be randomly selected. This contest will end on November the 10th.

If you want to be part of this dream, you can also help us by getting this badge.
Purchase this collector’s item today and help sponsor our Foundations!

“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry