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(mysterious music)

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(alarms going off)

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- The risk is really high.

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I would recommend to go back
and try to fix this problem.

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- I don't want to gamble
with a pilot in the ocean.

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- If we go back to Japan,

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I think it's the end of the project.

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- [Peter] I think it's very dangerous.

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You know, we never have the
story of those who got killed.

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- [Andre] We have to do it
to demonstrate it works.

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So someone has to do it first.

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Someone has to try.

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(elegant music)

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(airplane engine roaring)

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- [Bertrand] To have an
airplane that could fly forever

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without fuel, no noise, no pollution.

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That was the dream from the beginning.

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- [Man] We can move it a little bit.

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It's a little bit, just a little bit.

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- The airplane was
considered to be impossible

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to be built and flown.

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The challenge is how to
make something like this.

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This is an airplane we
designed, we dreamt about.

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It's a big part of me.

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We are not sure that
this is the right answer

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to the challenge of
flying around the world.

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This I can tell you maybe
in five months afterwards

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if we were right or if we were wrong.

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(chains rattling)

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- An airplane powered by solar energy.

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Even in my comic books
with Superman, Spider-Man,

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that wasn't in.

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- Everybody was saying
it's completely crazy

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to do something like that,

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flying an airplane, a prototype like this,

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five days above the ocean.

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(indistinct chatter)

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(camera shutters clicking)
(indistinct chatter)

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- [Reporter] We're in the early
hours of the morning here,

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and the Solar Impulse 2 is ready to embark

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on its ambitious round the world journey.

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- [Reporter] Bertrand
Piccard and Andre Borschberg

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will be taking turns to
fly the solar-powered plane

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around the world for the very first time.

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The wingspan is the
equivalent of a 747 jet.

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It weighs about the same as a family car.

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We're told it has the
horsepower of a scooter,

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and it flies wholly on
the power of the sun.

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(indistinct radio chatter)

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- Okay, Andre, everything is ready.

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We still wait for the
final go from the SRB.

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- In 1969 I was 11,

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and I saw Apollo 11
taking off to the moon,

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and I said, "I want to
have that type of life."

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16 years I've been dreaming of that,

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to start a flight around
the world with no fuel.

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There are doubts all the time.

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When you're doing something
that nobody has done before,

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the doubts are important.

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If you are on a straight
line with your beliefs,

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you never succeed in something new.

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- [Man On Radio] Confirm
you get the clearance.

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- Okay, solar generator looks good.

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Continue with engines, then.

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Have a good flight Andre,
let's start the adventure.

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(plane engine revving up)

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- [Andre] Okay, finally.

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Its a magic, magic moment.

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- [Man On Radio] Main wheel liftoff.

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- Wow!

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(optimistic music)

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(speaking in foreign language)

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(crying)

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- [Man On Radio] It's
really a phenomenal sight

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but crazy to believe
that it is just the sun

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powering that plane here.

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- [Reporter] The dream
is to show a way forward

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without fossil fuels, and spread a message

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about the need to fight climate change.

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- [Reporter] The pilots
will be broadcasting live

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from the cockpit and speaking to schools,

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politicians, and the media.

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Now it's got a huge journey ahead of it.

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- We will make about 11 stops.

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There's only one seat, so we take turns.

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Five days, five nights over the oceans,

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alone in this cockpit.

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(inspiring music)

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Five months now, the
plane starting this way,

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if everything goes well,
comes back this way in July.

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It is so much more difficult

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to use these clean technologies in the air

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than to use them on the ground,

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so if it works in the air,

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I really hope people will understand

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that they can replace all
these old, polluting old stuff

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by new clean technologies.

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What we do in the air
we can do on the ground,

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and this is our message.

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- Thank you very much.

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Currently altitude 5300 feet.

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Technology is all for the
benefit of all of humanity.

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I mean, in the way we use
it, if we destroy our planet,

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its completely stupid.

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When you fly with the sun as
the only source of energy,

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that's a completely different
world, different feeling.

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- Hello, Andre.

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Below you, you have a
small thermal inversion,

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and below this thermal inversion

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you have all this dust and haze.

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- This aircraft is so light, so fragile,

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trying to find the places where
he can fly is not so easy.

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When you have a downdraft or updrafts,

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this aircraft can break in two.

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Rain, humidity and turbulence, forget it.

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Only sun and quiet weather and tailwinds.

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(indistinct radio chatter)

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- We are excited, but there's
a lot of fear as well.

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I think the overall
around-the-world flight

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you can compare to an Apollo mission.

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If you do something wrong,
just one thing, they could die,

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and you carry that for
the rest of your life.

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(applause)
(indistinct chatter)

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(plane engine roaring)

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- Microphone and headphone, and the cuffs.

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It starts to vibrate on your arm,

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and this is to alert the
pilot if the bank is too high.

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(Velcro separates)

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- [Michele] Bertrand
realized how much exploration

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was connected to his own
work as a psychiatrist.

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He saw problems in the society,

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and he wanted just to give solutions.

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(speaking in foreign language)

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- [Bertrand] When I was a child,

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I was afraid to climb in the tree.

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Fear is there.

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Either you have no fear at all,

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which means you're completely crazy,

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or you have some fear,

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which means that you are not a daredevil.

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It might not go well, but the
only way to know is to try.

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(plane whistling in air)

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(gentle music)

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(speaking foreign language)

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- These cars, they don't go anywhere

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and they pollute the air.

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(laughter)

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- [Bertrand] What interests me the most

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is not to break a record,
but to do a first.

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My father and my
grandfather were the first

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to the bottom of the ocean,

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showing there was life
in the deepest trenches.

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The first in the stratosphere,
to see with his own eyes

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the curvature of the earth.

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When you do the first, you
establish the first benchmark.

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And from there, a lot of
new things can come out.

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I flew 20 days nonstop with a balloon.

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Every day I was afraid
to fall short of fuel.

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And it was almost a failure.

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We just succeeded because
we had two hours of margin

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with the propane after 20 days.

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That's when I made the promise

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that I would fly around
the world with no fuel.

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(wind blowing)

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(plane whistling)

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(indistinct radio chatter)

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(alarms going off)

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(indistinct radio chatter)

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- You said the aircraft is unstable,

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and I don't see any turbulence at all.

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- Yeah, I see it.

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It's a heading change of 15 degrees,

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without anything from outside.

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From what I see on the data,
it looks just perfectly calm.

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(speaking foreign language)

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- There he is, Andre, hello.

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Bertrand started to say
the aircraft is unstable,

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and the autopilot cannot be
connected and had a few times

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sideslip up to 15 degrees,
and he said it's--

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- 15, 1-5 degrees, and he said
it's really hard to control.

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- We are looking for a bailout area

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in the area he's flying for the moment.

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Flight director, inform pilot's wife.

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- Andre, you heard this?

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You take care of Michele in case.

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- [Peter] If it's a
pilot problem, you know,

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pilot-induced oscillation,

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I think we should take time,
do everything very calm.

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(indistinct chatter)

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- [Bertrand] No, now
it's completely stable.

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Because now I can keep the
heading without the autopilot.

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- [Christoph] Okay, Bertrand,
then the next thing,

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I like you to extend the
outriggers and then slowly go down.

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(plane whistling)

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(indistinct chatter)

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(speaking in foreign language)

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(camera shutters clicking)

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- It was a fantastic flight.

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Fantastic flight.

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- Always challenges with
an experimental airplane.

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You always discover, you always learn.

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- Yes, well it's going to be
really impressive, I tell you,

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to cross the Pacific,
to cross the Atlantic.

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- It's not done yet.
- You can imagine that?

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- [Andre] It's not done yet.

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(indistinct chatter)

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- This plane has the capacity
to take the rays of the sun.

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- I got the chance to see this plane,

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and it's a once in a lifetime moment.

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(indistinct chatter)

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- [Robert] : I think it's enough.

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(speech obscured by background noise)

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- [Robert] We had a little delamination

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on one of the solar panels.

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- No, don't push too much.

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- No, it's perfect.

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This white spot can overheat
one of these individual cells.

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If one cell gets damaged,

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like with the light bulbs
in a Christmas tree,

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you break down all the others as well.

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- I just knew from the beginning

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that it must be a super light aircraft.

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13 years ago, the thrill, wow!

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Is it possible, is it not possible?

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And it was up, down,
fighting, success, failures.

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(curious music)

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- We had to design the whole plane

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very much on the edge of
everything in terms of weight.

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We were able to put in an energy reserve.

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The whole size of the
airplane is driven by

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the energy we need to cross the Pacific.

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(harness clicking)

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(splashing)

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(indistinct chatter)

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- We never flew over the
ocean five nights in a row.

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That's the main challenge.

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The last measure which we
can take is to bail out,

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but of course you want to bail out

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when you really have to bail out.

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If you do this mission you have
to be on the positive side,

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or you will never do it.

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(water gurgling)

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(speaking in foreign language)

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(plane whistling)

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- Building the airplane, I think
I'm realizing a dream I had

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when I was really a little boy,

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thinking about these pilots

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who were discovering
aviation, these pioneers.

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I met Bertrand at the right
moment with a great idea.

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(speaking in foreign language)

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I always have been a little bit

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rebellious against authority.

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I left home when I was quite young.

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What I learned as a fighter
pilot, which was useful,

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I think you are trained to
better appreciate the risk

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and come up with the right decision.

257
00:17:01,948 --> 00:17:04,865
(mysterious music)

258
00:17:15,729 --> 00:17:18,396
(festive music)

259
00:17:35,911 --> 00:17:39,010
(indistinct chatter)

260
00:17:39,010 --> 00:17:41,550
- On the ground, this aircraft
has a lot of weak points.

261
00:17:41,550 --> 00:17:46,550
It is big, it is light, and
therefore it is fragile.

262
00:17:51,660 --> 00:17:55,010
It's made of fabric, it's made of carbon,

263
00:17:55,010 --> 00:17:57,363
and you can break it with your finger.

264
00:18:03,784 --> 00:18:06,617
(fabric rumbling)

265
00:18:14,030 --> 00:18:16,530
- [Peter] I really would
like to have more details

266
00:18:16,530 --> 00:18:20,010
on this phase before landing in Ahmedabad,

267
00:18:20,010 --> 00:18:22,460
what happened there, because we had really

268
00:18:22,460 --> 00:18:24,750
some stressed situation on the ground.

269
00:18:24,750 --> 00:18:28,087
- I made a mistake in flying
the plane in an unstable way,

270
00:18:28,087 --> 00:18:33,087
and I really scared everybody,
so I was very embarrassed.

271
00:18:33,950 --> 00:18:35,760
- Not being prepared good enough,

272
00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:39,570
pilot condition must be
better than what it was.

273
00:18:39,570 --> 00:18:41,920
- Now of course I don't
have the same reactions

274
00:18:42,819 --> 00:18:44,713
as a jet plane pilot.

275
00:18:45,912 --> 00:18:48,420
- [Christoph] No, which is
not necessarily a bad thing.

276
00:18:49,325 --> 00:18:51,992
(wind rustling)

277
00:19:02,883 --> 00:19:06,800
(speaking in foreign language)

278
00:19:52,569 --> 00:19:55,152
(horn honking)

279
00:19:56,452 --> 00:19:59,000
- I was extremely disappointed
not to make the Pacific.

280
00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:00,850
That was my dream from the beginning.

281
00:20:03,570 --> 00:20:06,503
I think I underestimated
the difficulty to fly it.

282
00:20:08,310 --> 00:20:10,890
On this airplane, it's not
like in on a normal airplane.

283
00:20:10,890 --> 00:20:13,101
You have to be really more precise.

284
00:20:13,101 --> 00:20:14,930
(indistinct chatter)
(horn honking)

285
00:20:14,930 --> 00:20:17,960
I initiated the project
to fly in that airplane,

286
00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,280
but then the same time, it's
true I'm not the best pilot.

287
00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,813
I'm the explorer who became a pilot.

288
00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,550
I had to learn to fly that airplane.

289
00:20:26,550 --> 00:20:28,303
And it's not easy for me.

290
00:20:31,180 --> 00:20:34,973
- This decision was extremely
difficult for everybody,

291
00:20:35,970 --> 00:20:38,435
especially when there
are a lot of emotions

292
00:20:38,435 --> 00:20:41,101
and so much at stake.

293
00:20:41,101 --> 00:20:45,490
(horns honking)
(traffic rumbling)

294
00:20:45,490 --> 00:20:47,380
If I would do the Pacific,

295
00:20:47,380 --> 00:20:49,693
I knew that I had to
prepare myself very well.

296
00:20:52,376 --> 00:20:55,126
(birds chirping)

297
00:20:57,090 --> 00:20:58,310
When I will be in this cockpit,

298
00:20:58,310 --> 00:21:00,793
there will be moments
that will be too intense.

299
00:21:02,650 --> 00:21:04,803
We will sleep but for very short time,

300
00:21:04,803 --> 00:21:07,393
20 minutes resting period.

301
00:21:11,410 --> 00:21:14,700
Yoga, meditation, breathing,

302
00:21:14,700 --> 00:21:17,120
it's a way to reboot the system,

303
00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:19,437
which is start to be congested.

304
00:21:19,437 --> 00:21:21,690
(plane roars in distance)

305
00:21:21,690 --> 00:21:25,261
When you fly jet fighters, you
have whatever power you need

306
00:21:25,261 --> 00:21:27,990
to go against the winds,

307
00:21:27,990 --> 00:21:30,800
to fly in turbulence and bad weather.

308
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,330
Here, it's just the other way around.

309
00:21:33,330 --> 00:21:37,250
This airplane is like a leaf
pushed around by the wind.

310
00:21:37,250 --> 00:21:40,941
You have to make nature as a
partner and not as an enemy.

311
00:21:40,941 --> 00:21:42,780
I think that's an attitude in life,

312
00:21:42,780 --> 00:21:46,605
in some ways I discovered
when flying this airplane.

313
00:21:46,605 --> 00:21:49,438
(plane whistling)

314
00:21:57,004 --> 00:21:59,524
(rhythmic clapping)

315
00:21:59,524 --> 00:22:02,107
(bright music)

316
00:22:03,684 --> 00:22:06,267
(crowd cheers)

317
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,412
- People say there is too much pollution,

318
00:22:17,412 --> 00:22:19,690
there is climate change.

319
00:22:19,690 --> 00:22:24,060
But it's not enough to
complain about problems.

320
00:22:24,060 --> 00:22:26,710
We have to bring solutions.

321
00:22:26,710 --> 00:22:29,880
The same technologies that
can make an airplane fly

322
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:34,880
day and night with no fuel
can be used to divide by two

323
00:22:35,950 --> 00:22:37,785
the emissions of CO2.

324
00:22:37,785 --> 00:22:39,550
(applause)

325
00:22:39,550 --> 00:22:43,540
- After seeing this, I think
my future, my future job,

326
00:22:43,540 --> 00:22:45,823
maybe I will do something like this.

327
00:22:47,108 --> 00:22:50,530
We have to think about our
children, our grandchildren.

328
00:22:50,530 --> 00:22:52,367
This thing is for them.

329
00:22:52,367 --> 00:22:56,090
(plane engine roaring)

330
00:22:56,090 --> 00:22:59,230
- With Solar Impulse, we're
only at the first phase.

331
00:22:59,230 --> 00:23:02,010
Our goal is not to transport passengers,

332
00:23:02,010 --> 00:23:04,292
our goal is to transport a message.

333
00:23:04,292 --> 00:23:06,875
(bright music)

334
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:23,967
With Andre, we've done six
legs from Abu Dhabi to here.

335
00:23:23,967 --> 00:23:27,430
But now it's time to go to the next level,

336
00:23:27,430 --> 00:23:28,280
and it's the ocean.

337
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,743
This is why Solar Impulse is built.

338
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:41,390
- It's five days and five
nights, solo flights over water.

339
00:23:41,390 --> 00:23:43,565
It's like going to the moon.

340
00:23:43,565 --> 00:23:44,760
Everything is under control,

341
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,663
but you still have to go to the moon.

342
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,360
- The challenge with the solar energy

343
00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:56,050
is to fly through the night.

344
00:23:56,050 --> 00:23:59,183
The energy of the airplane
is the critical factor.

345
00:24:00,310 --> 00:24:03,370
During the day, we climb
to very high altitudes,

346
00:24:03,370 --> 00:24:06,700
where we collect energy
directly from the sun.

347
00:24:06,700 --> 00:24:09,350
And we use this altitude at
the beginning of the night

348
00:24:09,350 --> 00:24:12,933
to slowly fly down, and
this saves the batteries.

349
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,880
Minimum battery charge if
everything goes on plan

350
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:22,180
is not more than 10% in
the morning at sunrise.

351
00:24:22,180 --> 00:24:25,273
It's about an hour, so
there is not much margin.

352
00:24:27,824 --> 00:24:28,924
Everything okay there?

353
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:32,450
Okay, let's move forward.

354
00:24:33,820 --> 00:24:37,990
- We are removing each gram
that we can in this airplane,

355
00:24:37,990 --> 00:24:41,043
because each gram of
course is consuming energy.

356
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,900
- I did the most weight saving
because I lost four kilos

357
00:24:47,900 --> 00:24:50,900
during the last four months
there, so I did my contribution.

358
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,930
- We were never able to prove

359
00:24:55,930 --> 00:25:00,380
that the airplane can fly
through the night so far,

360
00:25:00,380 --> 00:25:03,090
and reducing weight is reducing risk.

361
00:25:03,090 --> 00:25:05,940
- The lighter you are,
the further you get.

362
00:25:05,940 --> 00:25:09,040
- Who knows, maybe this is
the minute which counts.

363
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:10,212
- Yeah, exactly.

364
00:25:10,212 --> 00:25:13,419
(indistinct chatter)

365
00:25:13,419 --> 00:25:16,360
- The Pacific is the
largest ocean on the earth.

366
00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:18,880
It's something that is always moving,

367
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,330
developing, dying, depressions, typhoons.

368
00:25:22,330 --> 00:25:23,453
It's like a soup.

369
00:25:24,380 --> 00:25:27,630
- The most difficult part of
this Pacific flight to Hawaii

370
00:25:27,630 --> 00:25:30,620
is the crossing of a classical cold front

371
00:25:30,620 --> 00:25:32,550
that acts like a wall.

372
00:25:32,550 --> 00:25:34,580
Cloudiness that gives precipitation,

373
00:25:34,580 --> 00:25:36,486
so all things that you have to avoid.

374
00:25:36,486 --> 00:25:41,100
And we have to find a hole
in that frontal system.

375
00:25:41,100 --> 00:25:43,730
Every day, we are looking for a hole,

376
00:25:43,730 --> 00:25:46,490
we're even dreaming about a hole.

377
00:25:46,490 --> 00:25:50,260
Flying to Hawaii takes
five, maybe six days.

378
00:25:50,260 --> 00:25:53,968
When you cross that front, you
have to be sure about details

379
00:25:53,968 --> 00:25:56,230
and five days ahead.

380
00:25:56,230 --> 00:25:58,054
It's difficult, it's difficult to say.

381
00:25:58,054 --> 00:26:01,054
(building rattling)

382
00:26:02,460 --> 00:26:04,480
- [Reporter] Weather
is posing a big problem

383
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:05,517
for the Solar Impulse plane.

384
00:26:05,517 --> 00:26:08,960
The Solar Impulse has
been grounded in China

385
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,013
due to bad weather brewing
over the Pacific Ocean.

386
00:26:17,514 --> 00:26:20,870
- If it happens that
you'll have bad weather,

387
00:26:20,870 --> 00:26:24,290
pilot tired, and technology problem,

388
00:26:24,290 --> 00:26:26,363
there is the biggest risk we have.

389
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,720
You dream of it almost all night

390
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,863
because if there is a failure,
there is a person in there.

391
00:26:36,620 --> 00:26:40,723
- It's not only that we have
the risk of losing the pilot,

392
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,930
but it will also change
the life of every engineer,

393
00:26:45,930 --> 00:26:50,930
which Andre maybe doesn't
realize all the time.

394
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,250
- Yes, I can hear you loud and clear.

395
00:26:55,500 --> 00:26:56,333
Yes.

396
00:26:57,706 --> 00:26:59,410
(indistinct chatter)

397
00:26:59,410 --> 00:27:01,863
The closer we get now, more intense it is.

398
00:27:03,350 --> 00:27:06,488
The first time I will fall
asleep will be over the ocean.

399
00:27:06,488 --> 00:27:08,360
(speaking in foreign language)

400
00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:11,270
We all know that falling
asleep when you are stressed,

401
00:27:11,270 --> 00:27:12,440
not easy, huh?

402
00:27:14,290 --> 00:27:16,690
Of course if I end up in the
water, it will be a shame,

403
00:27:16,690 --> 00:27:19,657
but I'm ready for a lot
of things to happen.

404
00:27:22,148 --> 00:27:23,970
There will be moment of actions,

405
00:27:23,970 --> 00:27:26,420
there will be moment of reflection.

406
00:27:26,420 --> 00:27:28,527
I hope not moment of regret.

407
00:27:28,527 --> 00:27:30,890
(wistful music)

408
00:27:30,890 --> 00:27:33,533
This inner voyage is really
what I'm looking for,

409
00:27:34,980 --> 00:27:38,410
to go through these different experiences.

410
00:27:38,410 --> 00:27:40,653
This is the gift of all that.

411
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,714
- You put breaking news takeoff tonight.

412
00:27:46,714 --> 00:27:49,220
Starting to be exciting.

413
00:27:49,220 --> 00:27:50,850
- Finally.

414
00:27:50,850 --> 00:27:52,700
- I'm getting emotional a little bit.

415
00:27:53,906 --> 00:27:54,739
Sorry.

416
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:56,643
I'm so happy.

417
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,610
- Do we have a good
corridor to get to the hole,

418
00:28:01,610 --> 00:28:04,060
or we do not have a good
corridor to get to the hole?

419
00:28:04,060 --> 00:28:04,950
- [Michael On Phone]
The hole's still there,

420
00:28:04,950 --> 00:28:07,932
yes, it is there, it's
more or less confirmed.

421
00:28:07,932 --> 00:28:11,932
(speaking in foreign language)

422
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,363
- Takeoff, we have
cirro-cumulus which are new.

423
00:28:17,363 --> 00:28:19,330
They were not seen before.

424
00:28:19,330 --> 00:28:20,790
- [Andre] What's the flight time?

425
00:28:20,790 --> 00:28:24,350
- Flight time is six days and a half.

426
00:28:24,350 --> 00:28:26,500
- Six. (whistles)

427
00:28:26,500 --> 00:28:29,540
- Having a seventh day,
it's not acceptable for me.

428
00:28:29,540 --> 00:28:31,490
If it's five and a half, okay.

429
00:28:31,490 --> 00:28:36,120
On the edge, but if it's six
and something, it's, ugh.

430
00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:38,780
- I mean if I look at everything
now I have the impression

431
00:28:38,780 --> 00:28:40,670
we are pushing a little bit too far there.

432
00:28:40,670 --> 00:28:42,950
- We are at seven hours from departure.

433
00:28:42,950 --> 00:28:44,640
- It's tight there, it's tight,

434
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,540
and uncertainty due to energy.

435
00:28:46,540 --> 00:28:48,500
- We have too many issues,
that's the problem.

436
00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:50,033
We have too many issues now.

437
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:53,423
- Game over.

438
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,530
The guys fighting each other
because they are nervous,

439
00:29:01,530 --> 00:29:03,400
they are under tension, they are tired.

440
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,850
- If it's the window of the
year, we just have to do it.

441
00:29:05,850 --> 00:29:07,860
- We're not going to do it for tomorrow.

442
00:29:07,860 --> 00:29:11,910
I'm sorry, yeah, but I think
we'll not have a solution

443
00:29:11,910 --> 00:29:12,743
for tomorrow evening.

444
00:29:12,743 --> 00:29:17,107
- The time to prepare a
distance of such a huge window,

445
00:29:17,107 --> 00:29:20,633
the weather maps and so on,
it's not done in three hours.

446
00:29:21,530 --> 00:29:24,050
- He's tired, he's tired, they are tired.

447
00:29:24,050 --> 00:29:28,046
- Don't forget that the
distance from Nanjing to Hawaii

448
00:29:28,046 --> 00:29:32,220
is almost two times Europe,
and then you're asking us,

449
00:29:32,220 --> 00:29:35,930
what's the clouds going to be
like in Poland and in Greece

450
00:29:35,930 --> 00:29:39,280
and in Ukraine in three hours?

451
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,990
- With two people!
- I mean--

452
00:29:41,990 --> 00:29:43,190
- I like my job.

453
00:29:43,190 --> 00:29:44,614
Oh, I like my job.

454
00:29:44,614 --> 00:29:46,202
(laughter)

455
00:29:46,202 --> 00:29:47,260
- [Bertrand] But?

456
00:29:47,260 --> 00:29:48,100
- But it was hell.

457
00:29:48,100 --> 00:29:50,200
- I would prefer that we take some rest,

458
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:54,013
and tomorrow morning we start
to fight for the next one.

459
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:56,110
- Fresh and rested.

460
00:29:58,340 --> 00:29:59,940
It worries me very much.

461
00:29:59,940 --> 00:30:03,100
If you look in the history of exploration,

462
00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:06,600
most of the big attempts
have failed several times

463
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,115
before the success.

464
00:30:08,115 --> 00:30:11,365
(plane engine roaring)

465
00:30:16,776 --> 00:30:19,859
(indistinct chatter)

466
00:30:19,859 --> 00:30:21,690
- This is what we were dreaming of.

467
00:30:21,690 --> 00:30:25,370
We will have a nice
corridor behind this system

468
00:30:25,370 --> 00:30:26,960
onto the ocean.

469
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,452
Three, even four days flying in sunshine.

470
00:30:30,452 --> 00:30:33,194
(group cheering)

471
00:30:33,194 --> 00:30:37,080
(indistinct chatter)

472
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,720
- Now it's the moment of truth,

473
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,340
the first time that this airplane will fly

474
00:30:42,340 --> 00:30:43,783
with such a long time.

475
00:30:45,450 --> 00:30:46,658
- [Nils] Okay, we move.

476
00:30:46,658 --> 00:30:49,491
(inspiring music)

477
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:54,833
- For the time being, looking good.

478
00:31:11,190 --> 00:31:14,090
- [Yasemin] He's doing this
really with a lot of his heart

479
00:31:14,090 --> 00:31:16,050
and all his being.

480
00:31:16,050 --> 00:31:18,404
I don't think anything else matters.

481
00:31:18,404 --> 00:31:21,237
(plane whistling)

482
00:31:23,645 --> 00:31:26,478
(inspiring music)

483
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,700
- [Reporter] The Solar Impulse
2 plane is currently tackling

484
00:31:33,700 --> 00:31:36,330
the most ambitious leg of
its round the world journey.

485
00:31:36,330 --> 00:31:38,070
- [Reporter] Once midway
across the Pacific,

486
00:31:38,070 --> 00:31:39,555
there's no turning back,

487
00:31:39,555 --> 00:31:42,480
with no airports to land
at and no boat capable

488
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,300
of trailing the plane fast enough.

489
00:31:44,300 --> 00:31:46,410
- [Reporter] Even to get
one man across an ocean

490
00:31:46,410 --> 00:31:49,563
will push him and his
machine to the limits.

491
00:31:58,191 --> 00:32:03,191
(indistinct chatter)
(monitor beeping)

492
00:32:07,377 --> 00:32:09,116
- [Wim] Wednesday there
is bad weather coming in,

493
00:32:09,116 --> 00:32:12,623
thunderstorms, and afterwards
it's turning northwest.

494
00:32:14,823 --> 00:32:17,687
- It's a wall in front of us?

495
00:32:17,687 --> 00:32:22,100
- And we have one or two
layers where we have cumulus.

496
00:32:22,100 --> 00:32:24,260
We will reach the point of no return

497
00:32:24,260 --> 00:32:26,250
in approximately 10 hours,

498
00:32:26,250 --> 00:32:28,623
so we have to have a
decision by that point.

499
00:32:29,930 --> 00:32:32,470
- The good side is that
the plane flies well,

500
00:32:32,470 --> 00:32:35,010
Andre is in a good shape,
and probably we can make it

501
00:32:35,010 --> 00:32:37,830
through the first night
with enough energy.

502
00:32:37,830 --> 00:32:41,410
On the other hand, we're in
deep shit because we don't know

503
00:32:41,410 --> 00:32:44,170
how to cross the bad
weather front in five days.

504
00:32:44,170 --> 00:32:46,350
- It's a big deception, actually.

505
00:32:46,350 --> 00:32:49,320
The problem is that cold
front over the ocean.

506
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,900
And at takeoff we were confident

507
00:32:51,900 --> 00:32:54,040
we had solutions to cross it,

508
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,369
and then we didn't have
a solution anymore.

509
00:32:56,369 --> 00:32:59,952
(indistinct radio chatter)

510
00:33:03,411 --> 00:33:07,328
(speaking in foreign language)

511
00:33:32,345 --> 00:33:35,012
(ominous music)

512
00:33:48,964 --> 00:33:51,729
- So you can confirm
that it's blocked now?

513
00:33:51,729 --> 00:33:52,796
- [Man] At that position, yeah.

514
00:33:52,796 --> 00:33:55,160
- At that position.

515
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,610
- For me, it's clearly red to continue.

516
00:33:57,610 --> 00:33:58,920
It's no way.

517
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:00,910
The earlier we announce this diversion,

518
00:34:00,910 --> 00:34:04,340
the higher is the rate
of success, I would say,

519
00:34:04,340 --> 00:34:07,060
to save the airplane and
the pilot and the mission.

520
00:34:07,060 --> 00:34:10,140
- My personal opinion is
that we have more risk

521
00:34:10,140 --> 00:34:12,950
of losing the airplane in Japan

522
00:34:12,950 --> 00:34:15,900
than if we try to reach Hawaii.

523
00:34:15,900 --> 00:34:19,060
I don't see how we can get the permission

524
00:34:19,060 --> 00:34:21,184
to inflate a mobile hangar in Japan.

525
00:34:21,184 --> 00:34:24,430
- [Markus] The airplane is
not made to cross a front

526
00:34:24,430 --> 00:34:26,107
and fly in cumulus clouds.

527
00:34:37,650 --> 00:34:41,790
- Until when can we still
say we try to cross?

528
00:34:41,790 --> 00:34:43,019
- Now.

529
00:34:43,019 --> 00:34:48,019
Either we divert, or we take a big risk.

530
00:34:48,504 --> 00:34:50,530
(indistinct chatter)

531
00:34:50,530 --> 00:34:53,924
- Nobody is confident to continue,

532
00:34:53,924 --> 00:34:58,924
so our position would be to
make a diversion on Nagoya.

533
00:35:00,849 --> 00:35:04,182
(Andre's radio hissing)

534
00:35:06,728 --> 00:35:11,630
(foreign language over speakers)

535
00:35:11,630 --> 00:35:14,000
- [Reporter] The green
energy plane Solar Impulse 2

536
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,440
stopped moving towards its make or break

537
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,110
next destination, Hawaii.

538
00:35:18,110 --> 00:35:19,570
- [Reporter] There's no telling how long

539
00:35:19,570 --> 00:35:21,080
they're going to spend in Japan

540
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:22,729
waiting on the weather conditions.

541
00:35:22,729 --> 00:35:26,015
(speaking in foreign language)

542
00:35:26,015 --> 00:35:30,324
(indistinct radio chatter)

543
00:35:30,324 --> 00:35:33,741
(plane thump on landing)

544
00:35:36,737 --> 00:35:40,320
(indistinct radio chatter)

545
00:35:41,475 --> 00:35:44,058
(wind blowing)

546
00:35:47,417 --> 00:35:51,417
(speaking in foreign language)

547
00:35:54,810 --> 00:35:56,880
- We need to be able to get

548
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,120
the mobile hangar assembled tonight.

549
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,070
If we do not succeed, the risk is that

550
00:36:02,070 --> 00:36:03,370
we lose the airplane completely

551
00:36:03,370 --> 00:36:04,580
and the risk is extremely high.

552
00:36:04,580 --> 00:36:06,793
It's not 10% chance, it's 90.

553
00:36:12,570 --> 00:36:14,760
- What we need now is our hangar

554
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,950
to prevent it from sun, wind and rain.

555
00:36:17,950 --> 00:36:20,650
We're pretty much struggling
to keep it on the ground.

556
00:36:23,050 --> 00:36:25,874
- We need to put full speed on it.

557
00:36:25,874 --> 00:36:28,321
Maximum speed, maximum efforts.

558
00:36:28,321 --> 00:36:30,294
(wind blowing)

559
00:36:30,294 --> 00:36:33,686
(machinery buzzing)

560
00:36:33,686 --> 00:36:36,769
(indistinct chatter)

561
00:36:38,572 --> 00:36:42,572
(speaking in foreign language)

562
00:36:50,930 --> 00:36:53,200
- [Nils] The aircraft was
not just a little bit wet.

563
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,180
It was completely wet with water dripping

564
00:36:56,180 --> 00:36:59,192
from every single part of this aircraft.

565
00:36:59,192 --> 00:37:02,690
(rain pattering)

566
00:37:02,690 --> 00:37:04,280
- Well, we want to avoid a short circuit

567
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,430
because that would blow very probably

568
00:37:06,430 --> 00:37:08,849
the main fuse inside the battery.

569
00:37:08,849 --> 00:37:10,710
(water splashing)

570
00:37:10,710 --> 00:37:11,543
Oh, shit.

571
00:37:12,580 --> 00:37:13,673
I didn't see that.

572
00:37:17,340 --> 00:37:20,980
- I hope it will be okay, but
I don't know at this stage.

573
00:37:20,980 --> 00:37:22,920
Maybe in three months
we're still in Japan,

574
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,350
and then it would be a disaster

575
00:37:25,350 --> 00:37:26,950
for our flight around the world.

576
00:37:31,410 --> 00:37:35,410
(speaking in foreign language)

577
00:37:46,740 --> 00:37:49,407
(tools buzzing)

578
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:56,630
- Checking if there is a little bit

579
00:37:56,630 --> 00:38:00,190
of water left in the structure.

580
00:38:00,190 --> 00:38:03,080
Parts which have water inside explode

581
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,060
if the water gets frozen
when we climb very high.

582
00:38:09,090 --> 00:38:13,184
Andre would take all the risks.

583
00:38:13,184 --> 00:38:15,360
(beeping)

584
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:19,008
We from the engineering, we
want to reduce as much as we can

585
00:38:19,008 --> 00:38:22,838
to make his life safe,
but he's a risky guy.

586
00:38:22,838 --> 00:38:25,840
(indistinct chatter)

587
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:29,040
- We always want to
wait for better windows,

588
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,910
but now we have passed the 21st of June,

589
00:38:31,910 --> 00:38:35,910
and it's going to be worse
and worse in term of energy.

590
00:38:35,910 --> 00:38:38,230
We are not on the safe side if we wait.

591
00:38:38,230 --> 00:38:41,313
(indistinct chatter)

592
00:38:49,208 --> 00:38:52,185
(beeping)

593
00:38:52,185 --> 00:38:53,837
(groaning)

594
00:38:53,837 --> 00:38:56,031
(indistinct radio chatter)

595
00:38:56,031 --> 00:39:00,031
(speaking in foreign language)

596
00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:05,350
- There is no high pressure there.

597
00:39:05,350 --> 00:39:07,760
It's a complete shitty weather.

598
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,423
There is absolutely no
way to go through it.

599
00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:14,844
To follow something for three days

600
00:39:14,844 --> 00:39:18,573
and 10 minutes before the takeoff, crazy.

601
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,889
There's really a problem
somewhere in our way of working.

602
00:39:22,889 --> 00:39:26,452
(indistinct chatter)

603
00:39:26,452 --> 00:39:30,369
(speaking in foreign language)

604
00:39:39,479 --> 00:39:40,312
- Okay.

605
00:39:41,380 --> 00:39:44,623
They're checking if we
should proceed or not.

606
00:39:44,623 --> 00:39:46,730
- [Man] How are you feeling?

607
00:39:46,730 --> 00:39:47,583
- Detached.

608
00:39:48,820 --> 00:39:50,063
That's the best way.

609
00:39:52,291 --> 00:39:54,458
(snoring)

610
00:39:59,203 --> 00:40:01,780
- I think we really need it now,

611
00:40:01,780 --> 00:40:05,486
because the spirits are
sort of not very well.

612
00:40:05,486 --> 00:40:07,810
And if we now take the plane back,

613
00:40:07,810 --> 00:40:11,910
assemble the mobile hangar
again and stay here for longer,

614
00:40:11,910 --> 00:40:12,880
it's gonna be quite bad

615
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,910
for the general mood of the team I think.

616
00:40:15,910 --> 00:40:17,960
So that's why I believe
we're gonna take off.

617
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:19,730
It's gonna happen.

618
00:40:19,730 --> 00:40:21,750
- This afternoon I was confident.

619
00:40:21,750 --> 00:40:24,371
Now, I feel more like gambling.

620
00:40:24,371 --> 00:40:28,650
If he has to bail out here, okay.

621
00:40:28,650 --> 00:40:29,940
Water's maybe already warmer,

622
00:40:29,940 --> 00:40:34,184
but I don't want to gamble
with a pilot in the ocean.

623
00:40:34,184 --> 00:40:38,184
(speaking in foreign language)

624
00:40:40,019 --> 00:40:42,602
- I'm not confident to letting,

625
00:40:44,090 --> 00:40:46,820
taking the risk of your life.

626
00:40:46,820 --> 00:40:51,750
It's very difficult to go
against the inner feeling.

627
00:40:52,852 --> 00:40:54,750
- There are two terrible situations.

628
00:40:54,750 --> 00:40:57,880
The worst is to be in
the middle of the Pacific

629
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:02,800
and see that it closes, and to
lose the plane and you jump.

630
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,919
The other one is to be on the runway

631
00:41:05,919 --> 00:41:09,100
and to see that it closes, and
this is exactly what we have

632
00:41:09,100 --> 00:41:11,130
but it's not as bad as if

633
00:41:11,130 --> 00:41:12,610
you are in the middle of the Pacific.

634
00:41:12,610 --> 00:41:15,330
- I feel that you went
over the tipping point

635
00:41:15,330 --> 00:41:18,540
in terms of feeling,
and so it must be right.

636
00:41:18,540 --> 00:41:22,120
- But it's a terrible situation,
and I imagine for you,

637
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,703
I'm so sorry for you Andre.

638
00:41:24,703 --> 00:41:27,453
(voice breaking)

639
00:41:28,530 --> 00:41:29,910
You cannot imagine--

640
00:41:29,910 --> 00:41:30,813
- Don't be sorry.

641
00:41:32,439 --> 00:41:35,180
- [Bertrand] You cannot
imagine how sorry I am for you.

642
00:41:35,180 --> 00:41:37,853
You are in that cockpit,
you are ready to go.

643
00:41:39,660 --> 00:41:43,100
When I said we have to stop,
Michael told me, "Thank you."

644
00:41:46,083 --> 00:41:48,240
- To confirm, flight is canceled.

645
00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:51,823
We go back to the tents
unfortunately, but that's life.

646
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,504
(indistinct chatter)

647
00:41:56,504 --> 00:41:57,754
Lot of hurdles.

648
00:41:59,896 --> 00:42:00,923
Big hurdles.

649
00:42:04,250 --> 00:42:06,350
- [Bertrand] We tried everything we could.

650
00:42:08,781 --> 00:42:11,937
And we just failed the last centimeter.

651
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:15,363
The last centimeter.

652
00:42:17,830 --> 00:42:21,710
- Always trying to make it work,

653
00:42:21,710 --> 00:42:25,773
and then you see that all that
work is kind of for nothing.

654
00:42:27,070 --> 00:42:32,070
I have to admit that the last
weeks I was losing faith.

655
00:42:34,147 --> 00:42:36,897
(soft sad music)

656
00:42:55,950 --> 00:42:59,520
- The monsoon is really
picking up here in Japan,

657
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:03,070
which means rain, also
the risk of a typhoon.

658
00:43:03,070 --> 00:43:05,743
So what we are facing if we cannot leave

659
00:43:05,743 --> 00:43:08,090
over the next few days to Hawaii

660
00:43:08,090 --> 00:43:11,817
is being hit by a typhoon,
lose the mobile hangar,

661
00:43:11,817 --> 00:43:14,370
and of course lose the airplane.

662
00:43:14,370 --> 00:43:17,183
- We will always have an unknown thing.

663
00:43:17,183 --> 00:43:19,320
This is the nature of a forecast.

664
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,007
It's a forecast, it's
not the truth, you know?

665
00:43:22,007 --> 00:43:24,703
- Either we try to cross an ocean or not.

666
00:43:27,220 --> 00:43:30,550
- Where do you feel you have
the biggest question marks

667
00:43:30,550 --> 00:43:32,590
or the biggest unreliability?

668
00:43:32,590 --> 00:43:37,590
- We will be flying just in
front of incoming cirrus.

669
00:43:38,810 --> 00:43:40,920
- [Andre] So at night we can't fly.

670
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:45,850
- It was so embarrassing to
have Andre ready to take off,

671
00:43:45,850 --> 00:43:47,133
all the press watching,

672
00:43:48,585 --> 00:43:50,160
and we had to cancel at the last minute.

673
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,070
And this time we want to avoid this,

674
00:43:52,070 --> 00:43:54,810
so we're not telling anybody.

675
00:43:54,810 --> 00:43:56,900
And once we're in the air, if it works,

676
00:43:56,900 --> 00:43:59,519
then we say, "Hey-O, cuckoo, here we are.

677
00:43:59,519 --> 00:44:01,787
"This time it's going well."

678
00:44:02,650 --> 00:44:05,820
- [Andre] Okay, third
attempt, ladies and gentlemen.

679
00:44:05,820 --> 00:44:08,900
Third time that we try to move.

680
00:44:10,761 --> 00:44:14,678
(speaking in foreign language)

681
00:44:24,044 --> 00:44:26,461
(soft music)

682
00:44:27,810 --> 00:44:30,993
I am committed, completely
committed to this flight.

683
00:44:33,030 --> 00:44:37,293
Point of no return is
already past long time ago.

684
00:44:44,483 --> 00:44:48,400
(speaking in foreign language)

685
00:44:52,312 --> 00:44:54,541
(indistinct chatter)

686
00:44:54,541 --> 00:44:57,190
(fabric rustling)

687
00:44:57,190 --> 00:45:00,123
- Friday, we're both super,
super depressed in Tokyo.

688
00:45:01,219 --> 00:45:02,936
Yeah, this might be the end.

689
00:45:02,936 --> 00:45:04,740
Not sure we're gonna still make it,

690
00:45:04,740 --> 00:45:06,950
but if we make it to Hawaii,

691
00:45:06,950 --> 00:45:10,339
at least we've done the hard thing.

692
00:45:10,339 --> 00:45:13,089
(soft sad music)

693
00:45:13,933 --> 00:45:17,830
(speaking in foreign language)

694
00:45:17,830 --> 00:45:19,340
- We are just getting ready,

695
00:45:19,340 --> 00:45:23,740
and we try to take off at 3:00 a.m. sharp.

696
00:45:23,740 --> 00:45:26,553
- This time it seems
better, so we try again.

697
00:45:29,325 --> 00:45:32,408
(music intensifying)

698
00:45:45,315 --> 00:45:48,065
- [Raymond] Looking fine for now.

699
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,511
(plane engine roaring)

700
00:45:58,511 --> 00:46:01,178
(hopeful music)

701
00:46:21,455 --> 00:46:24,288
(monitor beeping)

702
00:46:27,759 --> 00:46:30,592
(alarm going off)

703
00:46:33,510 --> 00:46:36,550
- Okay, copy, there was a short MAS fail.

704
00:46:36,550 --> 00:46:40,610
If we do not find out why it
happened or what triggered it,

705
00:46:40,610 --> 00:46:43,570
we should not continue for the Pacific.

706
00:46:43,570 --> 00:46:46,390
- The biggest concern is,
the problem is the MAS.

707
00:46:46,390 --> 00:46:48,033
That's the killer one.

708
00:46:50,024 --> 00:46:53,810
- The MAS is the system
controlling the autopilot,

709
00:46:53,810 --> 00:46:56,460
which is giving false
alarms and waking up Andre

710
00:46:57,390 --> 00:46:59,262
each time he wants to sleep.

711
00:46:59,262 --> 00:47:01,429
(beeping)

712
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,290
- So you want to continue to Hawaii.

713
00:47:10,290 --> 00:47:11,123
- Yeah.

714
00:47:11,123 --> 00:47:13,310
- Knowing that the
monitoring is not working?

715
00:47:13,310 --> 00:47:14,739
- Yeah.

716
00:47:14,739 --> 00:47:16,651
- And you still--

717
00:47:16,651 --> 00:47:19,453
- It makes life a little
bit more complicated.

718
00:47:21,390 --> 00:47:25,340
We'll need monitoring from the ground.

719
00:47:25,340 --> 00:47:26,640
- The risk is really high.

720
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:29,850
The risk is really, really high.

721
00:47:29,850 --> 00:47:32,710
We have 55 minutes before
the point of no return,

722
00:47:32,710 --> 00:47:35,070
and we don't know what is causing this,

723
00:47:35,070 --> 00:47:36,850
and we have no idea.

724
00:47:36,850 --> 00:47:39,328
I mean, it could degrade.

725
00:47:39,328 --> 00:47:42,411
(indistinct chatter)

726
00:47:43,552 --> 00:47:46,410
- [Andreas] We still don't
know the cause of the problem?

727
00:47:46,410 --> 00:47:47,243
- No.

728
00:47:48,700 --> 00:47:50,010
- If we go back to Nagoya,

729
00:47:50,010 --> 00:47:53,622
I'm sure we would find another window,

730
00:47:53,622 --> 00:47:56,110
but the season is not over.

731
00:47:56,110 --> 00:47:57,613
- A bloody, shitty situation.

732
00:48:00,950 --> 00:48:05,570
If we go back to Japan, I think
it's the end of the project.

733
00:48:15,415 --> 00:48:19,332
(speaking in foreign language)

734
00:48:59,365 --> 00:49:00,656
- Now we just need to know

735
00:49:00,656 --> 00:49:04,210
if Andre wants to continue or not.

736
00:49:04,210 --> 00:49:06,773
- [Woman] What do you think it
will take for him to decide?

737
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:10,673
- Guts.

738
00:49:13,420 --> 00:49:17,673
Not only as a pilot, but for the project.

739
00:49:19,067 --> 00:49:22,067
(suspenseful music)

740
00:49:25,808 --> 00:49:28,869
(indistinct chatter)

741
00:49:28,869 --> 00:49:30,640
- We have an aircraft
which is not nominal.

742
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:32,653
Things will break during this journey,

743
00:49:33,610 --> 00:49:35,280
and if we start the journey already

744
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:39,020
with one redundancy down, that's
not a good starting basis.

745
00:49:39,020 --> 00:49:41,090
I would recommend to go back.

746
00:49:41,090 --> 00:49:44,860
- Going back to Nagoya
in the season of typhoons

747
00:49:44,860 --> 00:49:47,440
with the possibility of
destroying the airplane

748
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:51,430
on the ground, in term of overall project,

749
00:49:51,430 --> 00:49:54,133
it's more risky to come
back than to continue.

750
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:05,730
- If you decide to continue,

751
00:50:05,730 --> 00:50:09,790
as a friend you have all my support,

752
00:50:09,790 --> 00:50:13,520
but as an engineer, I would
say we have to go back

753
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:14,703
as we have the choice.

754
00:50:16,244 --> 00:50:20,810
- A lot of people can be a
little bit afraid, scared,

755
00:50:20,810 --> 00:50:24,030
by the unknown in which we're jumping.

756
00:50:24,030 --> 00:50:28,890
I was very often in my life
in these type of situations,

757
00:50:28,890 --> 00:50:30,590
and I tell you that it's worth it.

758
00:50:31,750 --> 00:50:36,750
But the decision we take goes
far beyond the flight itself.

759
00:50:37,460 --> 00:50:41,513
We have now the possibility
to do what nobody has done.

760
00:50:42,700 --> 00:50:44,820
When Chuck Yeager broke
the speed of sound,

761
00:50:44,820 --> 00:50:46,470
he had a broken rib.

762
00:50:46,470 --> 00:50:50,077
All these things were
absolutely incredible feats.

763
00:50:50,077 --> 00:50:52,077
- [Peter] I think it's very dangerous

764
00:50:52,077 --> 00:50:56,940
with this heroic speech
to encourage people

765
00:50:56,940 --> 00:51:01,270
to take a wrong decision,
because we never have the story

766
00:51:01,270 --> 00:51:02,913
of those who got killed.

767
00:51:13,970 --> 00:51:18,080
- [Peter] Nobody in the
future will understand

768
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:21,880
that two managers can
go against a whole team,

769
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,670
and you really force
us to support something

770
00:51:24,670 --> 00:51:26,440
that nobody wants to do.

771
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,253
- I just want to make
one point very clear.

772
00:51:28,253 --> 00:51:31,520
There's only so much we
can do to support you

773
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:34,810
from here from the ground,
so when you decide to go on,

774
00:51:34,810 --> 00:51:37,797
you will be on your own up there.

775
00:51:37,797 --> 00:51:39,150
- This is Capcom speaking.

776
00:51:39,150 --> 00:51:40,470
We have to start the climb now

777
00:51:40,470 --> 00:51:43,845
if we want to have a chance
to respect the profile.

778
00:51:43,845 --> 00:51:46,345
- [Michael] Go, climb.
- Climb!

779
00:51:47,323 --> 00:51:49,740
(soft music)

780
00:51:53,477 --> 00:51:56,144
(radio hissing)

781
00:52:08,334 --> 00:52:12,251
(speaking in foreign language)

782
00:52:36,213 --> 00:52:37,860
- Just from an engineering point of view

783
00:52:37,860 --> 00:52:39,460
it was the wrong decision.

784
00:52:39,460 --> 00:52:42,860
That you still can make
it is like, I don't know,

785
00:52:42,860 --> 00:52:44,930
driving with a flat tire.

786
00:52:44,930 --> 00:52:47,480
- We have to be lucky from
a certain point of view.

787
00:52:49,090 --> 00:52:53,455
But it's their decision.

788
00:52:53,455 --> 00:52:55,812
(plane engine roaring)

789
00:52:55,812 --> 00:52:58,229
(soft music)

790
00:53:00,590 --> 00:53:05,010
- We saved the project by
deciding not to return to Japan.

791
00:53:05,010 --> 00:53:07,380
On the other hand, we
have some of the engineers

792
00:53:07,380 --> 00:53:08,330
who are so pissed off

793
00:53:08,330 --> 00:53:10,880
because we did not follow
their recommendation.

794
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,130
They want to leave the project,

795
00:53:13,130 --> 00:53:15,480
and I don't know what
will happen after Hawaii.

796
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:20,530
There are moments where
you have to take some risks

797
00:53:20,530 --> 00:53:24,140
if you want to achieve something
that has never been done.

798
00:53:24,140 --> 00:53:25,850
Otherwise we stay in the armchair

799
00:53:25,850 --> 00:53:30,180
and we wait until we're old
and we die and we do nothing.

800
00:53:38,211 --> 00:53:40,378
(beeping)

801
00:53:51,087 --> 00:53:54,587
- A lot of wake up calls in this airplane.

802
00:53:56,601 --> 00:53:59,340
- This MAS system which
monitors the aircraft

803
00:53:59,340 --> 00:54:01,890
while the pilot is resting
is behaving erratic.

804
00:54:01,890 --> 00:54:04,230
We had it working in the beginning,

805
00:54:04,230 --> 00:54:07,010
then it produced a failure
so we shut it down.

806
00:54:07,010 --> 00:54:08,051
We tried again.

807
00:54:08,051 --> 00:54:10,510
(monitors beeping)

808
00:54:10,510 --> 00:54:13,635
We don't really know what
the status of the system is.

809
00:54:13,635 --> 00:54:16,218
(upbeat music)

810
00:54:18,211 --> 00:54:20,520
- The first night was about digesting,

811
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:24,570
I mean, the emotion of the first
day, it was really intense.

812
00:54:24,570 --> 00:54:27,270
When I look out, I see the
moon, I see the clouds,

813
00:54:27,270 --> 00:54:28,823
and here, the Pacific.

814
00:54:30,500 --> 00:54:32,252
I think I feel a bit high.

815
00:54:32,252 --> 00:54:35,085
(inspiring music)

816
00:55:00,365 --> 00:55:02,659
- From here to here we need to speed up.

817
00:55:02,659 --> 00:55:04,480
We need to burn more energy.

818
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:06,104
- It is a risky game to--

819
00:55:06,104 --> 00:55:07,304
- [Christoph S.] I know.

820
00:55:09,610 --> 00:55:13,272
- Due to the flight profile
we did on the first day

821
00:55:13,272 --> 00:55:15,010
the batteries got too warm.

822
00:55:15,010 --> 00:55:18,900
If it sums up over the days,
it can become really too hot.

823
00:55:18,900 --> 00:55:20,773
They can start to burn.

824
00:55:24,237 --> 00:55:27,070
(alarm going off)

825
00:55:28,131 --> 00:55:30,610
(monitor beeping)

826
00:55:30,610 --> 00:55:33,363
- It's turbulence since
I think about one hour.

827
00:55:34,890 --> 00:55:37,630
We are climbing again at 9-0
and we'll see if it's better,

828
00:55:37,630 --> 00:55:40,533
but it costs energy.

829
00:55:43,643 --> 00:55:44,476
(monitor beeping)

830
00:55:44,476 --> 00:55:46,900
- Still some time until the next sunrise.

831
00:55:48,743 --> 00:55:51,410
(ominous music)

832
00:56:13,427 --> 00:56:15,464
(indistinct radio chatter)

833
00:56:15,464 --> 00:56:16,920
- We're monitoring everyday

834
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:18,580
how many resting periods is he getting.

835
00:56:18,580 --> 00:56:22,536
For the first two nights,
he had three hours of sleep.

836
00:56:22,536 --> 00:56:25,510
That's okay, but we don't
know what's gonna happen

837
00:56:25,510 --> 00:56:28,877
on day four if you keep
that rhythm, and day five.

838
00:56:28,877 --> 00:56:31,260
(ominous music)

839
00:56:31,260 --> 00:56:35,120
So we climb everyday the
equivalent of sea level

840
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:36,964
straight up to Mt. Everest.

841
00:56:36,964 --> 00:56:38,523
No acclimatization.

842
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:42,430
If you don't have enough oxygen,

843
00:56:42,430 --> 00:56:44,070
there's the risk of hypoxia.

844
00:56:44,070 --> 00:56:47,770
Within 60 seconds, will
lead to a severe degradation

845
00:56:47,770 --> 00:56:52,173
in your ability to understand
what's going on around you.

846
00:56:53,220 --> 00:56:55,940
You become euphoric, so not only

847
00:56:55,940 --> 00:56:57,828
are you in a dangerous situation,

848
00:56:57,828 --> 00:57:00,960
you're not able to
recognize the situation,

849
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:04,280
and you feel good about not
recognizing the situation.

850
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:07,293
Then very quickly you will pass out.

851
00:57:08,271 --> 00:57:10,770
(radio static)

852
00:57:10,770 --> 00:57:14,380
We're watching to see how his
body is absorbing the oxygen.

853
00:57:14,380 --> 00:57:16,850
Is it actually getting enough?

854
00:57:16,850 --> 00:57:19,500
You're constantly listening
to this tssh, tssh.

855
00:57:21,795 --> 00:57:24,830
You hold your breath, hope he breathes,

856
00:57:24,830 --> 00:57:27,303
and then you keep going.

857
00:57:29,176 --> 00:57:32,610
(plane engine roars)

858
00:57:32,610 --> 00:57:36,480
- Pilot status: mood, he is exhausted.

859
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:38,360
Not as good as it was.

860
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:42,010
- We have a pilot that is
starting to show signs of fatigue.

861
00:57:42,010 --> 00:57:45,570
We have batteries that will
not take a lot more abuse.

862
00:57:45,570 --> 00:57:48,240
You see that all the
systems are stressed, yeah?

863
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:49,860
The flight is not over.

864
00:57:49,860 --> 00:57:51,510
- Quite intense.

865
00:57:51,510 --> 00:57:53,120
You have to perform
because it's real time.

866
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:55,260
You know, as an engineer, you are used to,

867
00:57:55,260 --> 00:57:57,230
okay, I solve the equation today,

868
00:57:57,230 --> 00:57:58,600
and if I don't solve it today,

869
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:00,360
then I'm gonna solve it tomorrow.

870
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:02,640
This is totally different.

871
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:07,390
I'm kind of happy that
it's soon over. (chuckles)

872
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:12,270
- So now a preparation for landing.

873
00:58:13,210 --> 00:58:16,655
I was thinking about all
this, and I cried, cried loud.

874
00:58:16,655 --> 00:58:19,650
It was a little bit ridiculous,
alone in the cockpit crying,

875
00:58:19,650 --> 00:58:23,850
everything was going well,
but it was so intense.

876
00:58:25,700 --> 00:58:27,903
- Andre, you have some kind of headache?

877
00:58:33,210 --> 00:58:34,650
- Okay, but I cannot see.

878
00:58:34,650 --> 00:58:35,950
Do you have the face view?

879
00:58:37,550 --> 00:58:38,568
Now oh, okay.

880
00:58:38,568 --> 00:58:39,912
He looks terrific, yeah.

881
00:58:39,912 --> 00:58:42,162
(laughter)

882
00:58:44,265 --> 00:58:47,092
(laughter)

883
00:58:47,092 --> 00:58:50,052
(surf breaking)

884
00:58:50,052 --> 00:58:54,460
(speaking in foreign language)

885
00:58:54,460 --> 00:58:56,210
- [Andre] Bien, bien.

886
00:58:58,370 --> 00:59:02,033
- He can feel every element in the plane.

887
00:59:04,660 --> 00:59:08,033
He knows which wings is vibrating.

888
00:59:09,550 --> 00:59:11,615
I think he was a bird in another life.

889
00:59:11,615 --> 00:59:13,727
(chuckles)

890
00:59:13,727 --> 00:59:15,760
- [Reporter] A plane
powered only by sunlight

891
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:18,560
makes history today in a five-day journey

892
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:19,750
across the Pacific.

893
00:59:19,750 --> 00:59:21,780
- [Reporter] This will be
the furthest a solar plane

894
00:59:21,780 --> 00:59:25,840
has ever flown, as well as the
longest lasting solo flight

895
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:27,533
in aviation history.

896
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:31,080
- I've never been to something
this historical before.

897
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:32,680
Too young to see other things,

898
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:34,340
just the right age to see this.

899
00:59:34,340 --> 00:59:37,173
(inspiring music)

900
00:59:48,330 --> 00:59:51,030
- It's absolutely beautiful,
and the latest wind

901
00:59:51,030 --> 00:59:54,833
from the ground crew is
0-4-0-3 knots, indexes.

902
00:59:55,695 --> 01:00:00,695
- [Andre] Okay.

903
01:00:01,028 --> 01:00:04,111
(music intensifying)

904
01:00:06,937 --> 01:00:10,937
(speaking in foreign language)

905
01:00:16,470 --> 01:00:19,583
- To confirm, you have the
landing and promotion lights on.

906
01:00:25,316 --> 01:00:28,783
(crowd cheering)

907
01:00:28,783 --> 01:00:29,616
- Whoopee!

908
01:00:30,681 --> 01:00:33,348
(soaring music)

909
01:00:47,932 --> 01:00:49,515
- [Bertrand] Andre!

910
01:00:51,217 --> 01:00:53,832
(plane engine powering down)

911
01:00:53,832 --> 01:00:56,082
(applause)

912
01:00:57,781 --> 01:01:00,864
(indistinct chatter)

913
01:01:02,197 --> 01:01:06,114
(speaking in foreign language)

914
01:01:08,279 --> 01:01:10,604
(indistinct chatter)

915
01:01:10,604 --> 01:01:14,437
(singing in foreign language)

916
01:01:16,225 --> 01:01:20,888
(speaking in foreign language)

917
01:01:20,888 --> 01:01:21,721
- To fly with the sun,

918
01:01:21,721 --> 01:01:24,580
you need to be extremely energy-efficient.

919
01:01:24,580 --> 01:01:26,930
This efficiency can be used everywhere.

920
01:01:26,930 --> 01:01:30,150
- This is why it's a
historic first for aviation,

921
01:01:30,150 --> 01:01:32,600
and a historic first
for renewable energies.

922
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:33,980
- [Reporter] Will you
make it around the world?

923
01:01:33,980 --> 01:01:35,290
Are you confident of that?

924
01:01:35,290 --> 01:01:37,030
- It's an attempt.

925
01:01:37,030 --> 01:01:39,143
We cannot be overconfident.

926
01:01:42,532 --> 01:01:45,500
- There was so much support
from people I didn't know,

927
01:01:45,500 --> 01:01:46,940
and the beautiful message.

928
01:01:46,940 --> 01:01:49,550
So when you read this,
you know that people

929
01:01:50,895 --> 01:01:52,263
are supporting you.

930
01:01:53,150 --> 01:01:56,483
And I was carried by all this, I'm sure.

931
01:01:59,430 --> 01:02:03,340
- All of us were very lucky
to have the pilot back,

932
01:02:03,340 --> 01:02:05,060
but when this decision came up

933
01:02:05,060 --> 01:02:07,240
that Andre and Bertrand want to continue,

934
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:12,240
it hurt us in the soul that
somebody decided against us.

935
01:02:16,432 --> 01:02:19,570
- I was fully in opposition
to Andre and Bertrand.

936
01:02:19,570 --> 01:02:22,620
Andre is pushing.

937
01:02:22,620 --> 01:02:24,887
We always had these
discussions and fights,

938
01:02:24,887 --> 01:02:28,077
"Why do you tend to go
beyond limits all the time?"

939
01:02:29,350 --> 01:02:32,250
We engineers tried to
set reasonable limits

940
01:02:32,250 --> 01:02:35,960
that you survive, and
your target is always

941
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:39,253
to sort of prove us that we
set the limits too narrow.

942
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:44,480
- If everybody is telling
you that you are a hero,

943
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:47,440
I think it's good also for
them that there are people

944
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:49,870
who try to pull them
back and on the ground

945
01:02:49,870 --> 01:02:50,933
from time to time.

946
01:02:54,733 --> 01:02:56,355
(machinery beeps)

947
01:02:56,355 --> 01:02:59,438
(indistinct chatter)

948
01:03:01,030 --> 01:03:04,513
The concern about the batteries
is that they are damaged.

949
01:03:06,479 --> 01:03:08,650
At the moment, we are on
the worst case scenario

950
01:03:08,650 --> 01:03:12,900
where we have to exchange
some cells in the batteries,

951
01:03:12,900 --> 01:03:15,417
which is, this is a nightmare.

952
01:03:15,417 --> 01:03:17,834
(soft music)

953
01:03:21,570 --> 01:03:25,060
- We have overheated the batteries.

954
01:03:25,060 --> 01:03:28,793
More cells are damaged than
the spare parts we have,

955
01:03:31,090 --> 01:03:34,150
so the logical consequence
is that we will stay here

956
01:03:34,150 --> 01:03:36,753
until next April where we can continue.

957
01:03:45,977 --> 01:03:49,060
(music intensifying)

958
01:03:51,408 --> 01:03:54,907
(material crinkling)

959
01:03:54,907 --> 01:03:57,907
(door sliding shut)

960
01:04:01,595 --> 01:04:04,595
(material rustling)

961
01:04:10,550 --> 01:04:13,180
- The flight from Japan
to Hawaii left scars

962
01:04:13,180 --> 01:04:14,963
on many of the engineers.

963
01:04:17,550 --> 01:04:19,664
I think for everybody

964
01:04:19,664 --> 01:04:21,950
to complete this flight around the world

965
01:04:21,950 --> 01:04:23,970
is extremely important.

966
01:04:23,970 --> 01:04:25,770
It's part of their life.

967
01:04:25,770 --> 01:04:27,333
I mean, they all stayed.

968
01:04:27,333 --> 01:04:30,416
(indistinct chatter)

969
01:04:32,410 --> 01:04:36,023
- Last year, I was too
much emotionally involved.

970
01:04:37,470 --> 01:04:39,460
I was thinking, "It's now or never."

971
01:04:39,460 --> 01:04:42,700
I was completely the head under the water,

972
01:04:42,700 --> 01:04:44,690
which is really not good
for flying an airplane

973
01:04:44,690 --> 01:04:45,590
over oceans, you know?

974
01:04:45,590 --> 01:04:47,493
I lost the mask.

975
01:04:48,460 --> 01:04:50,580
Sit up.

976
01:04:50,580 --> 01:04:55,504
I've flown 20 days in a
balloon but we were two.

977
01:04:55,504 --> 01:04:57,943
Flying alone is something different.

978
01:04:59,450 --> 01:05:03,127
So I really had to train
to prove to the MCC

979
01:05:03,127 --> 01:05:07,230
and the jets pilots that I can do it.

980
01:05:07,230 --> 01:05:09,280
One, two, three, the fourth one.

981
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:12,940
I will never be as precise
as a jet fighter pilot.

982
01:05:12,940 --> 01:05:15,930
This you cannot get at my age,

983
01:05:15,930 --> 01:05:17,950
but at least to do it correctly.

984
01:05:17,950 --> 01:05:20,083
Climb 174.

985
01:05:21,670 --> 01:05:23,350
- We see a weather window
for Moffet right now.

986
01:05:23,350 --> 01:05:26,151
It looks good, it's a short flight.

987
01:05:26,151 --> 01:05:28,580
We'll only confirm really tomorrow,

988
01:05:28,580 --> 01:05:30,523
even on the day of takeoff.

989
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:37,650
- It comes from the house of
Charles Lindbergh in Maui.

990
01:05:37,650 --> 01:05:40,039
A beautiful gift.

991
01:05:40,039 --> 01:05:43,456
(plastic wrap squeaking)

992
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:47,500
This is more for the Americans
than for the Europeans,

993
01:05:47,500 --> 01:05:49,890
and it's Star Trek, Captain Piccard,

994
01:05:49,890 --> 01:05:52,823
who is inspired from the twin
brother of my grandfather.

995
01:05:57,020 --> 01:06:00,530
It was a challenge to be an
explorer that would be different

996
01:06:00,530 --> 01:06:01,920
than my father and my grandfather,

997
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:03,963
not to just redo the same.

998
01:06:03,963 --> 01:06:05,947
- [Man On Phone] : The
wind is at the limit,

999
01:06:05,947 --> 01:06:08,420
so for the time being we don't go out.

1000
01:06:08,420 --> 01:06:11,140
- [Bertrand] And I was doubting
sometime, is it my way?

1001
01:06:11,140 --> 01:06:16,140
Because I'm also interested
by psychology, spirituality.

1002
01:06:19,130 --> 01:06:21,943
- [Christoph] Good Morning,
Bertrand, this is Christoph.

1003
01:06:21,943 --> 01:06:23,150
How are you?

1004
01:06:23,150 --> 01:06:23,983
- I'm fine.

1005
01:06:23,983 --> 01:06:27,210
I had four hours of good sleep.

1006
01:06:27,210 --> 01:06:29,520
I woke up before the alarm clock.

1007
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:31,601
I'm in perfect shape.

1008
01:06:31,601 --> 01:06:33,480
- [Christoph] Very good.

1009
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:35,070
- [Bertrand] My father and my grandfather

1010
01:06:35,070 --> 01:06:38,023
gave me the drive to be an explorer,

1011
01:06:39,700 --> 01:06:44,173
but my mother showed me the
need to give it meaning.

1012
01:06:45,530 --> 01:06:48,900
We were extremely close,
like two human beings

1013
01:06:48,900 --> 01:06:52,773
in quest of understanding
why we were on this earth.

1014
01:06:53,841 --> 01:06:56,258
(soft music)

1015
01:07:01,845 --> 01:07:05,012
(propellers whirring)

1016
01:07:06,027 --> 01:07:09,610
(indistinct radio chatter)

1017
01:07:14,500 --> 01:07:15,403
- [Andre] Wonderful.

1018
01:07:16,363 --> 01:07:19,500
Have a great flight,
Bertrand, and enjoy it!

1019
01:07:19,500 --> 01:07:21,653
And don't forget to come down!

1020
01:07:24,070 --> 01:07:26,740
- [Michele] People are always
thinking I am the wife,

1021
01:07:26,740 --> 01:07:28,913
I should have this fear.

1022
01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:37,297
When Bertrand did his round
the world balloon fight,

1023
01:07:37,297 --> 01:07:39,643
our children were very small.

1024
01:07:42,684 --> 01:07:46,700
At this age, children,
they don't have any fear.

1025
01:07:48,580 --> 01:07:50,930
They are just living the present moment,

1026
01:07:50,930 --> 01:07:55,623
and I just realized I should
not give them this fear.

1027
01:07:58,620 --> 01:08:01,703
(music intensifying)

1028
01:08:15,940 --> 01:08:19,450
- For this flight, Bertrand trained a lot.

1029
01:08:19,450 --> 01:08:22,143
The flight is long for him.

1030
01:08:23,300 --> 01:08:27,110
This was one of his main question:

1031
01:08:27,110 --> 01:08:29,937
if I don't sleep, how can I survive?

1032
01:08:29,937 --> 01:08:32,770
(papers rustling)

1033
01:08:39,335 --> 01:08:42,418
(soft hopeful music)

1034
01:08:44,483 --> 01:08:47,890
- First sunrise over a sea of clouds.

1035
01:08:47,890 --> 01:08:50,663
That's the sunrise I would
remember all my life.

1036
01:08:54,520 --> 01:08:59,040
Energy management, being as
energy-efficient as possible

1037
01:08:59,040 --> 01:09:02,723
during the night to reach the
next sunrise and continue.

1038
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:06,390
That's a beautiful metaphor
of how we have to behave

1039
01:09:06,390 --> 01:09:09,390
with energy and nature if we
want to survive on this planet.

1040
01:09:11,256 --> 01:09:14,006
(brushing teeth)

1041
01:09:15,267 --> 01:09:16,650
(monitor beeping)

1042
01:09:16,650 --> 01:09:19,395
Switching on the solar generators.

1043
01:09:19,395 --> 01:09:22,478
(material crinkling)

1044
01:09:25,850 --> 01:09:27,513
I can show you my little house.

1045
01:09:28,810 --> 01:09:32,170
That's the kitchen
where I prepare my food.

1046
01:09:32,170 --> 01:09:34,523
The toilet's inside the seat.

1047
01:09:35,410 --> 01:09:36,393
That's the cellar.

1048
01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:38,393
Breakfast.

1049
01:09:39,277 --> 01:09:40,110
The family, Estelle, Oriane, and Solange.

1050
01:09:42,770 --> 01:09:43,603
Michele.

1051
01:09:45,308 --> 01:09:49,225
(speaking in foreign language)

1052
01:10:00,207 --> 01:10:02,790
(gentle music)

1053
01:10:06,340 --> 01:10:07,173
- [Ban Ki Moon] Hello.

1054
01:10:07,173 --> 01:10:09,837
Hello, Solar Impulse,
hello, Captain Piccard.

1055
01:10:09,837 --> 01:10:12,880
- Good afternoon, Mr. Secretary General.

1056
01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:16,220
I speak to you from the
cockpit of Solar Impulse

1057
01:10:16,220 --> 01:10:20,490
in the middle of the Pacific,
flying on solar power.

1058
01:10:20,490 --> 01:10:23,740
All this airplane is like a
smart grid collecting energy,

1059
01:10:23,740 --> 01:10:27,730
distributing energy, with
very, very high efficiency.

1060
01:10:27,730 --> 01:10:31,000
And this is exactly what the world needs.

1061
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:31,833
- Wonderful.

1062
01:10:32,700 --> 01:10:35,890
You look like an astronaut in the moon.

1063
01:10:35,890 --> 01:10:37,970
- Thank you, Mr. Secretary General,

1064
01:10:37,970 --> 01:10:39,810
and congratulations
for what you are doing.

1065
01:10:39,810 --> 01:10:41,970
The world will remember it.

1066
01:10:41,970 --> 01:10:44,460
- While you are making history,

1067
01:10:44,460 --> 01:10:47,588
we have also made history today.

1068
01:10:47,588 --> 01:10:52,588
More than 175 countries signed
the climate change agreement.

1069
01:10:53,800 --> 01:10:57,280
Thank you for your
leadership and inspiration.

1070
01:10:57,280 --> 01:10:58,520
All the best to you.

1071
01:10:58,520 --> 01:10:59,673
Bon voyage.

1072
01:10:59,673 --> 01:11:01,923
(applause)

1073
01:11:05,020 --> 01:11:07,524
- I think I had more
butterflies in the stomach

1074
01:11:07,524 --> 01:11:10,020
before that live transmission

1075
01:11:10,020 --> 01:11:13,924
than when I took off with
Solar Impulse three days ago.

1076
01:11:13,924 --> 01:11:16,591
(elegant music)

1077
01:11:27,830 --> 01:11:31,880
The sun's going to arrive in a few minutes

1078
01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:34,733
to carry me to San Francisco.

1079
01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:40,653
It's beautiful. (voice breaking)

1080
01:11:42,948 --> 01:11:45,113
Moment extraordinaire.

1081
01:11:47,801 --> 01:11:51,218
(music picking up tempo)

1082
01:12:05,700 --> 01:12:10,700
14 last years of attempts,
of setbacks, of problems,

1083
01:12:12,610 --> 01:12:14,575
it was worth going
through all these moments

1084
01:12:14,575 --> 01:12:17,253
just to be here, now.

1085
01:12:18,128 --> 01:12:21,211
(music intensifying)

1086
01:12:41,605 --> 01:12:42,619
(indistinct chatter)

1087
01:12:42,619 --> 01:12:45,452
(car doors close)

1088
01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:55,853
(plane thumps on landing)

1089
01:12:55,853 --> 01:12:58,936
(indistinct chatter)

1090
01:12:59,887 --> 01:13:02,804
(Michele laughing)

1091
01:13:06,245 --> 01:13:07,740
- The thing that amazes me is the size,

1092
01:13:07,740 --> 01:13:09,540
and especially given the low weight.

1093
01:13:10,660 --> 01:13:15,080
This is the moment where you start to see

1094
01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:17,460
electric power taking off.

1095
01:13:17,460 --> 01:13:20,640
(speaking in foreign language)

1096
01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:23,020
There's nobody that drives a Tesla

1097
01:13:23,020 --> 01:13:28,020
that dreams of the days of
pollution and gas stations.

1098
01:13:28,020 --> 01:13:30,847
When people look back then and they say,

1099
01:13:30,847 --> 01:13:32,617
"What was the moment when

1100
01:13:32,617 --> 01:13:34,927
"it went from impossible to inevitable?"

1101
01:13:36,090 --> 01:13:37,972
They'll point to the Solar Impulse.

1102
01:13:37,972 --> 01:13:41,139
(applause and cheers)

1103
01:13:44,870 --> 01:13:46,577
- Sometimes you know there
are people who will say,

1104
01:13:46,577 --> 01:13:49,437
"Why do you fly with a solar
airplane like Solar Impulse?

1105
01:13:49,437 --> 01:13:51,357
"It's expensive, it's big, it's slow,

1106
01:13:51,357 --> 01:13:53,540
"only good weather and
only one person in it."

1107
01:13:53,540 --> 01:13:55,100
Silicon Valley, nobody ask.

1108
01:13:55,100 --> 01:13:57,140
Everybody knows, understands.

1109
01:13:57,140 --> 01:13:59,935
(indistinct chatter)

1110
01:13:59,935 --> 01:14:02,352
(soft music)

1111
01:14:33,010 --> 01:14:36,230
When Solar Impulse landed
yesterday in Phoenix,

1112
01:14:36,230 --> 01:14:41,230
it was just in front of a
cemetery of old airliners.

1113
01:14:41,292 --> 01:14:43,959
(wistful music)

1114
01:14:48,890 --> 01:14:49,800
- It's very sad.

1115
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:52,460
A lot of these airplanes
will never fly again.

1116
01:14:52,460 --> 01:14:53,920
They get dismantled.

1117
01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:56,503
This one lost the left eye.

1118
01:14:59,223 --> 01:15:00,083
Crazy.

1119
01:15:03,300 --> 01:15:04,250
Of course it's normal.

1120
01:15:04,250 --> 01:15:07,700
All this will be replaced
by better technologies.

1121
01:15:07,700 --> 01:15:10,443
But still in fact, I feel
emotions when I'm here.

1122
01:15:11,330 --> 01:15:14,463
An airplane is not just a piece of metal.

1123
01:15:15,330 --> 01:15:17,093
It represents much more.

1124
01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:22,400
- When people think fuel is forever,

1125
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:26,380
they forget the gold rush 100 years ago,

1126
01:15:26,380 --> 01:15:27,713
and the ghost towns.

1127
01:15:30,930 --> 01:15:34,280
I'm not saying Solar Impulse will replace

1128
01:15:34,280 --> 01:15:38,200
an airplane like that very
soon, but in 10 years time,

1129
01:15:38,200 --> 01:15:42,710
we have airplanes flying
electric with batteries,

1130
01:15:42,710 --> 01:15:46,140
plugged in the grid before takeoff,

1131
01:15:46,140 --> 01:15:48,397
and they will transport 50 people.

1132
01:15:48,397 --> 01:15:51,920
(staircase rattling)

1133
01:15:51,920 --> 01:15:56,670
Today you make electricity
with solar panels in Dubai

1134
01:15:56,670 --> 01:15:58,063
cheaper than with gas.

1135
01:16:04,420 --> 01:16:07,410
Ladies and gentlemen, you are
now doing your last flight

1136
01:16:07,410 --> 01:16:10,400
on the combustion engine airplane.

1137
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:13,253
In the future, you will
be flying electric.

1138
01:16:16,270 --> 01:16:19,890
- The local news came on
and said this was landing,

1139
01:16:19,890 --> 01:16:21,960
so I went outside and watched the skies

1140
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:23,343
to try to see something weird.

1141
01:16:23,343 --> 01:16:24,550
- All night long.

1142
01:16:24,550 --> 01:16:27,350
- I don't buy into the
global warming deal,

1143
01:16:27,350 --> 01:16:28,900
just to be honest.

1144
01:16:28,900 --> 01:16:30,870
We've had oil and gas for all these years,

1145
01:16:30,870 --> 01:16:33,360
but if they can make
stuff battery powered,

1146
01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:35,360
then I'm all for that.

1147
01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:37,764
They can obviously make it go faster.

1148
01:16:37,764 --> 01:16:40,620
Because I think you can drive
faster from Phoenix to Tulsa

1149
01:16:40,620 --> 01:16:43,899
than he flew, but it's a start.

1150
01:16:43,899 --> 01:16:46,566
(hopeful music)

1151
01:17:04,850 --> 01:17:07,470
- [Reporter] Just as the Wright
brothers did before them,

1152
01:17:07,470 --> 01:17:10,320
this team hoping to show
anything is possible

1153
01:17:10,320 --> 01:17:11,856
with the right resolve.

1154
01:17:11,856 --> 01:17:14,939
(indistinct chatter)

1155
01:17:22,300 --> 01:17:24,320
- Well, we had a failure
in the electric system

1156
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:26,580
of the mobile hangar.

1157
01:17:26,580 --> 01:17:28,940
It deflated, touched the airplane.

1158
01:17:28,940 --> 01:17:30,843
It can destroy the airplane.

1159
01:17:30,843 --> 01:17:33,926
(indistinct chatter)

1160
01:17:35,270 --> 01:17:39,480
- The mobile hangar was laying
on the tail of the aircraft,

1161
01:17:39,480 --> 01:17:42,253
slowly going down onto the wing.

1162
01:17:44,190 --> 01:17:48,680
- I just would like to hear
if there is a visual defect.

1163
01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:52,000
- We have no idea what,
especially here I'm not so afraid,

1164
01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:53,230
but from the wing.

1165
01:17:53,230 --> 01:17:54,730
- Until we see there is a problem,

1166
01:17:54,730 --> 01:17:57,010
it's stupid to cancel
the flight of tomorrow.

1167
01:17:57,010 --> 01:17:58,420
- Don't even think about it.

1168
01:17:58,420 --> 01:18:00,240
I hope we can fly again.

1169
01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:02,000
I think that's where we are.

1170
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:06,340
What we try to avoid is that
we get into a panic stage.

1171
01:18:06,340 --> 01:18:08,187
Bertrand is pushing of course.

1172
01:18:08,187 --> 01:18:12,230
(speaking in foreign language)

1173
01:18:12,230 --> 01:18:14,560
Don't push this, don't
push, it's not the moment.

1174
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:16,220
We try, we go step by step.

1175
01:18:16,220 --> 01:18:20,120
- So for me, for me, it's a non-event.

1176
01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:24,359
- It's not a non-event,
careful what you say.

1177
01:18:24,359 --> 01:18:27,940
We are in deep shit, in really deep shit.

1178
01:18:27,940 --> 01:18:31,079
Maybe there is nothing on the
airplane, but we don't know.

1179
01:18:31,079 --> 01:18:32,900
(speaking in foreign language)

1180
01:18:32,900 --> 01:18:34,973
This is an airplane
that's certified to fly

1181
01:18:34,973 --> 01:18:39,100
over the major cities, and
you don't play with safety.

1182
01:18:39,100 --> 01:18:40,637
That's the responsibility
of the engineers.

1183
01:18:40,637 --> 01:18:42,930
And I don't think it
will come with an answer

1184
01:18:42,930 --> 01:18:44,253
which is black and white.

1185
01:18:45,447 --> 01:18:47,864
(soft music)

1186
01:18:50,440 --> 01:18:52,220
- [Bertrand] This project is too big

1187
01:18:52,220 --> 01:18:54,757
to be run just by personal wishes,

1188
01:18:56,750 --> 01:18:59,379
but this is very new for me.

1189
01:18:59,379 --> 01:19:01,796
(soft music)

1190
01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:15,530
- [Andre] We had a couple of explosions,

1191
01:19:15,530 --> 01:19:18,210
very often because of our character,

1192
01:19:18,210 --> 01:19:23,113
maybe because of our egos,
and it was a hard process.

1193
01:19:26,453 --> 01:19:29,470
I think we understand that
we bring to each other

1194
01:19:29,470 --> 01:19:34,103
much more than the difficulty
that the relationship creates.

1195
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:43,210
- I don't think we're ever going to laugh

1196
01:19:43,210 --> 01:19:45,733
at the difficult moments we went through.

1197
01:19:47,904 --> 01:19:49,110
We've already worked together

1198
01:19:49,110 --> 01:19:52,290
since 13 years of this project.

1199
01:19:52,290 --> 01:19:54,950
We're very proud that
we didn't split apart,

1200
01:19:54,950 --> 01:19:56,643
that we didn't have any divorce.

1201
01:19:57,670 --> 01:19:59,913
That we could learn so
much from each other.

1202
01:20:06,070 --> 01:20:11,070
In 1969 my father arrived
with his submarine.

1203
01:20:11,870 --> 01:20:14,970
After the drift mission of
one month in the gulf stream,

1204
01:20:14,970 --> 01:20:17,220
he arrived in front of
the Statue of Liberty.

1205
01:20:19,116 --> 01:20:22,313
I was 11 years old, so happy and proud.

1206
01:20:24,660 --> 01:20:29,660
You know, all together, he
had 50 projects of submarines,

1207
01:20:29,670 --> 01:20:33,060
and only five got some fundings.

1208
01:20:33,060 --> 01:20:38,060
I saw my father worn out by
all these disappointments.

1209
01:20:38,290 --> 01:20:42,290
He told me, "Don't feel
obliged to continue my work."

1210
01:20:42,290 --> 01:20:43,376
(indistinct chatter)

1211
01:20:43,376 --> 01:20:45,010
(ripping patch off)

1212
01:20:45,010 --> 01:20:47,067
Let's go for the Atlantic, my friends.

1213
01:20:47,067 --> 01:20:49,317
(cheering)

1214
01:20:51,655 --> 01:20:53,013
Mr. Secretary General,

1215
01:20:53,013 --> 01:20:56,100
it's so wonderful to welcome you here!

1216
01:20:56,100 --> 01:20:57,873
- Mr. Piccard and his team,

1217
01:20:57,873 --> 01:21:00,200
they are sometimes risking their lives.

1218
01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:04,880
And this kind of audacious courage,

1219
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:08,173
we need this kind of spirit
to change this world.

1220
01:21:16,330 --> 01:21:17,550
- [Bertrand] The Atlantic is going to be

1221
01:21:17,550 --> 01:21:19,695
probably the greatest flight of my life.

1222
01:21:19,695 --> 01:21:21,280
(plane engine revving up)

1223
01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:24,010
I don't want to put the pressure and say,

1224
01:21:24,010 --> 01:21:25,828
oh, I met Charles Lindberg
when I was a child,

1225
01:21:25,828 --> 01:21:29,843
and imagine how important it
is and how symbolic it is.

1226
01:21:31,364 --> 01:21:33,660
I want it to be natural.

1227
01:21:33,660 --> 01:21:37,347
I want it to happen in a peaceful way.

1228
01:21:39,162 --> 01:21:41,745
(gentle music)

1229
01:22:00,687 --> 01:22:02,090
When you are in the middle of the unknown,

1230
01:22:02,090 --> 01:22:04,290
you have these moments of grace.

1231
01:22:04,290 --> 01:22:08,740
You are at that moment like
you would like to be forever.

1232
01:22:31,814 --> 01:22:33,755
(Raymond laughs)

1233
01:22:33,755 --> 01:22:36,422
- Did I show you my map already?

1234
01:22:39,430 --> 01:22:41,490
the Pacific is very small on this map

1235
01:22:41,490 --> 01:22:43,222
but the Atlantic is very big.

1236
01:22:43,222 --> 01:22:45,536
(laughter)

1237
01:22:45,536 --> 01:22:48,119
(gentle music)

1238
01:22:55,760 --> 01:22:58,280
- [Reporter] An airplane
powered solely by the sun

1239
01:22:58,280 --> 01:23:02,820
has made aviation history after
an almost three-day flight

1240
01:23:02,820 --> 01:23:04,470
across the Atlantic from New York.

1241
01:23:04,470 --> 01:23:06,270
- [Reporter] From Seville,
the aircraft will continue

1242
01:23:06,270 --> 01:23:08,870
its journey back to Abu
Dhabi where it all began

1243
01:23:08,870 --> 01:23:10,603
for this extraordinary project.

1244
01:23:11,596 --> 01:23:14,179
(gentle music)

1245
01:23:27,812 --> 01:23:31,395
(indistinct radio chatter)

1246
01:23:41,940 --> 01:23:45,180
- When I flew yesterday over the pyramid,

1247
01:23:45,180 --> 01:23:47,803
they were just emerging out of the haze.

1248
01:23:50,490 --> 01:23:55,490
I guess it was exactly the same
as they were 4500 years ago.

1249
01:23:57,410 --> 01:24:00,120
They believed in eternal life,

1250
01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:02,912
and for me it's a symbol of eternity.

1251
01:24:02,912 --> 01:24:04,850
(mysterious music)

1252
01:24:04,850 --> 01:24:08,130
Solar Impulse is also
intended to be a symbol.

1253
01:24:08,130 --> 01:24:09,890
A symbol about sustainability,

1254
01:24:09,890 --> 01:24:12,623
a symbol about the potential
of renewable energy.

1255
01:24:16,700 --> 01:24:18,190
If you build something like this,

1256
01:24:18,190 --> 01:24:21,430
which is done to be forever,

1257
01:24:21,430 --> 01:24:24,280
it's not necessarily the
solution which we should go for.

1258
01:24:25,320 --> 01:24:30,020
Sustainability means that
you stay in line with nature,

1259
01:24:30,020 --> 01:24:32,110
and I'm not sure in fact the way we build

1260
01:24:32,110 --> 01:24:33,343
takes this into account.

1261
01:24:34,590 --> 01:24:37,020
If you don't change the situation,

1262
01:24:37,020 --> 01:24:38,410
the world will dictate you, the future,

1263
01:24:38,410 --> 01:24:40,163
and not the other way around.

1264
01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:49,930
- There are so many mixed
thoughts and feelings right now

1265
01:24:49,930 --> 01:24:50,930
that it's difficult.

1266
01:24:52,880 --> 01:24:54,740
After this flight, it's over,

1267
01:24:54,740 --> 01:24:57,593
so it's like a family
that's going to split.

1268
01:24:58,487 --> 01:24:59,550
(horns honking)
(indistinct chatter)

1269
01:24:59,550 --> 01:25:01,520
But there is the message.

1270
01:25:01,520 --> 01:25:04,700
And what we have to do out of this flight,

1271
01:25:04,700 --> 01:25:09,390
and I'm working since years
for that, and for that moment,

1272
01:25:09,390 --> 01:25:13,023
and I want to be sure not to waste it.

1273
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:16,173
Good evening, MCC.

1274
01:25:17,770 --> 01:25:20,249
- [Michael] As we are
quite tight on energy,

1275
01:25:20,249 --> 01:25:22,490
timing is critical.

1276
01:25:22,490 --> 01:25:24,153
- [Wim] Every day there are cumulus clouds

1277
01:25:24,153 --> 01:25:26,223
that are really, really high.

1278
01:25:26,223 --> 01:25:28,985
- Is the pilot healthy?

1279
01:25:28,985 --> 01:25:32,057
- This time the pilot is a
little bit green, I have to say.

1280
01:25:32,057 --> 01:25:33,670
(chuckles)

1281
01:25:33,670 --> 01:25:35,850
- You mean it's stomach problems or--

1282
01:25:35,850 --> 01:25:36,683
- Yeah, yes.

1283
01:25:36,683 --> 01:25:41,676
I'm a little bit weak, but
the general situation is good.

1284
01:25:42,780 --> 01:25:45,230
- Okay, then drink a lot of water,

1285
01:25:45,230 --> 01:25:47,220
but you're the doctor, not me.

1286
01:25:47,220 --> 01:25:50,319
- [Man] Keep in mind that
the flight is not easy.

1287
01:25:50,319 --> 01:25:53,455
- No, it's a difficult flight, I know.

1288
01:25:53,455 --> 01:25:54,713
Absolutely.

1289
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:02,085
Everything is different
from what we have planned.

1290
01:26:02,085 --> 01:26:03,950
(chuckles)

1291
01:26:03,950 --> 01:26:05,970
It's adventure.

1292
01:26:05,970 --> 01:26:07,888
It's not a business plan.

1293
01:26:07,888 --> 01:26:11,805
(speaking in foreign language)

1294
01:26:20,859 --> 01:26:23,942
(indistinct chatter)

1295
01:26:25,950 --> 01:26:30,950
It's not the moment I'm
the healthiest in my life,

1296
01:26:31,070 --> 01:26:33,803
but it's still under control.

1297
01:26:35,690 --> 01:26:36,793
Still under control.

1298
01:26:38,701 --> 01:26:42,618
(speaking in foreign language)

1299
01:26:59,844 --> 01:27:02,587
- [Man On Phone] Takeoff
conditions on Sunday are not good,

1300
01:27:02,587 --> 01:27:05,160
and we will have extreme
thermals overhead.

1301
01:27:05,160 --> 01:27:06,353
It's the hottest time of the year.

1302
01:27:06,353 --> 01:27:09,550
- I believe that each of
the problems can be solved.

1303
01:27:09,550 --> 01:27:10,940
- [Peter On Phone] There is a danger

1304
01:27:10,940 --> 01:27:12,510
that you overheat equipment,

1305
01:27:12,510 --> 01:27:14,610
and at the end you have a failed aircraft.

1306
01:27:15,600 --> 01:27:17,000
- [Andre On Phone] We
know we are at the limit.

1307
01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:19,765
I would go into combat mode, gentlemen,

1308
01:27:19,765 --> 01:27:22,598
because it's not going to improve.

1309
01:27:24,395 --> 01:27:27,062
(bus puttering)

1310
01:27:32,023 --> 01:27:34,690
(hopeful music)

1311
01:27:50,903 --> 01:27:53,033
- I hope it's the last taxi.

1312
01:27:54,900 --> 01:27:59,433
Because if it is, then it's
a fantastic moment right now.

1313
01:28:01,410 --> 01:28:03,950
I've never been in a project that gave

1314
01:28:03,950 --> 01:28:08,320
as many moments of elation
and moments of disappointment.

1315
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:09,413
It's really strange.

1316
01:28:11,436 --> 01:28:14,519
(indistinct chatter)

1317
01:28:26,829 --> 01:28:30,329
(plane engine revving up)

1318
01:28:39,257 --> 01:28:44,257
(music intensifying)
(applause)

1319
01:29:01,328 --> 01:29:05,911
- As we told you, tonight
might be quite tough for you.

1320
01:29:26,695 --> 01:29:30,812
- It was not such a bad idea
that you had 17 years ago.

1321
01:29:30,812 --> 01:29:33,062
(laughter)

1322
01:29:41,410 --> 01:29:42,910
- We can't save the planet,

1323
01:29:42,910 --> 01:29:45,300
this one plane flying around the world.

1324
01:29:45,300 --> 01:29:48,490
But maybe that inspires many people

1325
01:29:48,490 --> 01:29:50,480
to start solving problems instead.

1326
01:29:50,480 --> 01:29:53,661
Then maybe it was worth all this stress.

1327
01:29:53,661 --> 01:29:56,244
(gentle music)

1328
01:30:10,800 --> 01:30:13,250
- We are late, we really
have to move, gentlemen.

1329
01:30:14,530 --> 01:30:15,470
- How you will enter?

1330
01:30:15,470 --> 01:30:18,413
I don't have a, you don't
have a permit to enter.

1331
01:30:19,307 --> 01:30:20,890
- I will go, I'm the pilot.

1332
01:30:20,890 --> 01:30:21,723
I tell you I will go.

1333
01:30:21,723 --> 01:30:24,393
You can shoot me, I will
go, and I will take my team.

1334
01:30:27,319 --> 01:30:29,902
(gentle music)

1335
01:30:37,047 --> 01:30:38,467
- [Bertrand] When Andre took off

1336
01:30:38,467 --> 01:30:40,823
the ninth of March last year,

1337
01:30:42,020 --> 01:30:45,370
I was thinking, "We are completely crazy."

1338
01:30:45,370 --> 01:30:48,490
And a year and a half
later, you see the result

1339
01:30:48,490 --> 01:30:50,000
of what our team has achieved

1340
01:30:50,000 --> 01:30:51,733
because they accepted to dream.

1341
01:30:53,510 --> 01:30:56,680
And when you see the
state of the world today,

1342
01:30:56,680 --> 01:31:00,520
it is a crime not to try something.

1343
01:31:00,520 --> 01:31:05,253
Not to try to increase quality
of life on this planet.

1344
01:31:08,030 --> 01:31:09,133
We love to fly.

1345
01:31:10,120 --> 01:31:14,533
For others, it's in art, in
science, in the community,

1346
01:31:15,660 --> 01:31:17,423
but we have to try.

1347
01:31:22,440 --> 01:31:26,420
- What I remember is to be
on this runway 15 months ago

1348
01:31:26,420 --> 01:31:28,133
exactly at this position,

1349
01:31:29,150 --> 01:31:31,553
ready for the flight around the world.

1350
01:31:33,200 --> 01:31:34,760
Not knowing what would happen,

1351
01:31:34,760 --> 01:31:36,940
not knowing how much time it would take.

1352
01:31:36,940 --> 01:31:38,250
Just go.

1353
01:31:38,250 --> 01:31:40,093
Just go and start.

1354
01:31:44,250 --> 01:31:46,330
And seeing the airplane coming,

1355
01:31:46,330 --> 01:31:48,100
it's like slowing down the time.

1356
01:31:49,883 --> 01:31:52,133
It's really, really strong.

1357
01:31:55,173 --> 01:31:58,256
(music intensifying)

1358
01:32:01,543 --> 01:32:03,793
(cheering)

1359
01:32:08,884 --> 01:32:11,134
(applause)

1360
01:32:30,588 --> 01:32:33,671
(indistinct chatter)

1361
01:32:45,873 --> 01:32:49,596
(camera shutters clicking)

1362
01:32:49,596 --> 01:32:53,513
(speaking in foreign language)

1363
01:33:13,545 --> 01:33:16,712
(cheers and applause)

1364
01:33:28,500 --> 01:33:32,333
(music building and quieting)

1365
01:33:37,684 --> 01:33:40,517
(inspiring music)