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The original billionaire Bertrand Piccard throws a new challenge

Geneva, Switzerland - He wants to go around the world on board of a solar energy aircraft

The billionaire who, after many attempts, succeeded in 1999 to go around the world in a balloon without making any intermediate stop, winning over the English billionaire Richard Branson (owner of the Virgin Group), who tried to do the same, throws a new challenge. Bertrand Piccard announced in a press release in Losanna that in 2007 he will try to set a new record going around the world on board of...

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Rome, Italy, 11/28/2003 17:37
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