Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones flew nonstop around the world in a balloon, landing safely Sunday in the Egyptian desert.
Bertrand Piccard, the plane's other creator, and Borschberg are planning an around-the-world flight in an improved version of the plane in 2015.
Today, Solar Impulse's pilots, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, came to NASA's Ames research center to announce their plan to fly across America.
However, in 2010, Swiss balloonist Bertrand Piccard plans to launch Solar Impulse, a manned plane in which he will attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse co-founder and chairman, said the plane should be ready for the cross-country journey on May 1, depending on the weather.
"All the big pioneers of the 20th century have tried to fly coast to coast across America, " said co-pilot and one of the plane's founders, Bertrand Piccard.
Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard and British co-pilot Brian Jones landed about 20 km from the nearest road after their epic flight which made aviation history, smashing records as it went.
Video posted on the expedition's website showed a smiling pilot Bertrand Piccard shortly after landing, as he waved to well-wishers and held up a flag emblazoned with the Solar Impulse name.
The HB-SIA craft was piloted by Bertrand Piccard, a co-founder of the effort, who is perhaps best known for being the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a hot-air balloon, in 1999.
The two founders, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, said they chose to come here because the country is known for creating technical innovations and playing a key role in reaching many key milestones in aviation.
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Early this morning at Moffet Air Field in Mountain View, California, Solar Impulse finally took off on the first leg of its barnstorming tour across the US. Of course, this isn't the first time the sun-powered plane and its pilots, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, have flown long distance, but it is the first time it's taken wing through American airspace.
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