Where To Stream NOVA Season 45 Episode 2
The Impossible Flight
- Aired January 31, 2018
- 120 Min
- Rated 7.8
- Number 170 Of 294 Rated Episodes
On March 9, 2015, Solar Impulse II took off from Abu Dhabi on one of the greatest aviation adventures of our time: the first solar-powered flight around the world. Together with a team of brilliant engineers, two visionary pilots—Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg—designed and built Solar Impulse from scratch, even though top airplane manufacturers told them it would be "impossible to control." To pull it off, they had to re-invent everything, from innovative solar cells and batteries to...