Secretary-General

Secretary-General Skype Chats with Solar Impulse Pilot

25 July 2016

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) gives Captain Bertrand Piccard (on screen) a ""thumbs up"" during their video chat via Skype today. Captain Piccard and André Borschberg have flown their expirmental aircraft, Solar Impulse 2, around the world powered only by the sun, with no fuel or polluting emissions. The plane will complete its 40,000 kilometre journey when it lands in Abu Dhabi tonight.

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