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about five minutes in five minutes and yeah yeah it will it's it's it's a good good good moment for all of us after a hot night we had a hard night with this this profile and with lots of chances for a batch all who couldn't rest and the hardest but things were things were hopefully looking looking at cuz he's got a big day ahead of him as well let's go to the simulation now this is your hard a beautiful form of you all your hard work after many after many years of hard work but tell us what's going on here it's different than some of the other simulations that we've had and that there's maybe fewer of these sort of rainbow the rainbow effect so it's not as windy yeah this simulation shows the travel I mean it fell over our craft and watches or behind us is in blue which is a Harris will be displayed in yellow and it's interesting too to show the in particular the wind situation and each small line here shows the direction of wind and the intensity depending on the color and it also shows the the patches of of clouds yeah main clouds which are above the aircraft so we can see here that rays nothing dangerous risky for the rest of the flight and normally the situation will be really good for what is now some of the other flight so you had a lot of tailwind but on this flight it's actually been quite quiet lots of updrafts and downdrafts yeah yeah during the night we had yes abduct and downdrafts which means turbulences which means uncomfortable situation for petrol also and globally speaking that this this flight is not we couldn't really benefit of everybody my name is Steven Beecham I'm here with cnet.com and we're gonna do a live we're gonna attempt a live in flight interview with captain of the Solar Impulse 2 solar powered airplane Bertrand Piccard he's somewhere over the desert in the Middle East right now and we're gonna try to connect with him via satellite and I'm gonna do an interview live over Facebook live streaming YouTube with him with a long delay so it's gonna be a little difficult but just stand by this is from Solar Impulse calm there's their website this is a live stream they're putting out right now he's on the last leg of his trip around the world on a solar-powered airplane so stay tuned we're gonna get this going here so hang in there we'll be right back with you guys shortly simulation gives you a real sense of just how much work you've put in and also just how much planning happens in the background before we actually take off has this been you know of all the simulations that you've done for all the different likes how is this compared or what's been the trickiest simulation work they've had to do I know you had to do a simulation to build the airplane too so maybe that then we can include that no I think what was really tricky okay yeah two to two different things yeah the preparation of the summation of the autumn mathematical models to to conceive to consider aircraft with with the ship chief engineer peter fry and that was really tricky because we we knew that we have to reach a really good level of accuracy in order to to build the right aircraft yeah and afterwards what was a really cheeky was the preparation of the vehicle flights yeah because we had you know we had to to fly with the aircraft virtually before the aircraft really exists in order to train the team in order to turn to to to learn how to fly with with it yeah and we also knew at this moment that it was really important for all of us to be able to simulate every leg of the around the world at non sure yeah which means a lot of preparation with your air traffic controller better with a mission ingenuous so yeah yes of work and it's about and lots and lots of mathematics I think we shouldn't forget that it's a very pretty picture but you are a mathematician so this is this requires a lot of hard math work so if you're in school looking at this you can be inspired and this is what you could be doing someday and this is a very practical you know use of mathematic and the computation of innovation and mathematics is really thank you many gives a really good things yeah yeah excellent well that's uh yeah another aspect of the solar Solar Impulse project and the people here excellent will go back to Beth's hall in the cockpit now and we will be keeping you updated throughout the rest of today as he makes his way closer to Abu Dhabi and gets ready for landing okay guys they're gonna connect with me soon over the telephone and I'm gonna have their live stream up so just stand by this is very technical we've been planning this for a while hopefully it's gonna go okay I'm gonna ask them a question there's gonna be a long delay he's gonna answer so hopefully gonna make this work okay so just stand by there's captain card hanging out in the Solar Impulse - I'm just waiting first phone call all right guys they're about to call me so stay tuned we're gonna talk with Captain Picard Solar Impulse to live on Facebook livestream and YouTube simultaneously so here's the call I'm gonna take it hang on in there guys hey this is Steve in San Francisco I'm ready okay the pilot is ready so they will just connect you and you read here like I told you the Mission Control Center just introducing you to the silence okay they will take you like in the second okay sounds good thank you alright hey guys we're here live with Bertrand Piccard the pilot of the Solar Impulse 2 which is flying in the Middle East right now he's waiting for him to say hello we're just hanging on for one second hello this is the Mission Control Center in Monaco you're now hello this is the Mission Control Center in Monaco you're now connected to the pilot back home pick up a lot of looping things on my headphones but I'm just gonna go for it mr. Picard can you hear me ok I'm gonna turn this down here I think that's gonna work better this way ok ok ok guys so we're gonna try again there's looping connections going to look like there's a control room of Monaco they're sending the signal to theirs come into my control room so just stand by we're going to get this worked out I think the connection now works good so please try again mr. Picard my name is Stephen btrim in San Francisco with Cena calm thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us how are you doing sunrise over the desert of stamp of so in the Arabia that the night was really bumpy it was turbulent you know the heat there are a lot of servos up they remade during the night so it was the smoothest night I could have I really have to fight or die controls the yesterday has been gorgeous with a desert of Egypt the crossing of the Red Sea arrived all of the mountains of Saudi it's a beautiful slide I have to say we're able to get any rest last night last night the door Lester this morning a little bit just before sunrise I had the the the first night of the your day of the horizon and the mirror I could make a few naps but you know at the end I'm just here to sleep I mean I'm here to fly the plane I'm here to bring it to Abu Dhabi so if I can sleep of course I I'm in a better shape and it easier that's the goal now is really to finish successfully the last leg of the around the world solo flight so set the scene for us everyone that's watching at home where are you right now and what is your elevation and what is your airspeed just so we get a sense of what's going on yes so the Arabia other place which is just a desert of Sam it's completely flat they are doing it I'm flying an eight thousand three so it's low because you know during the night I fly lower in order to save energy and when the Sun comes I starts to to climb again and I'm flying at a speed of 29 which is maybe slow for an airplane but you know this airplane is very strange I mean the first of a kind it's like slowly has a huge wingspan sensitive to turbulence but the way it is built allows it to fly a at night without fuel so I spent the night on the batteries that were charged yesterday during the day flight and now I'm starting to charge the batteries again for the next day for the next night so it's they could you era in aviation because of course it's the beginning it's difficult it's challenging there is go Hedgehog nobody explained us how to do it we we had to invent something completely new so you guys have already set the bench for longest flight it was five days in the solar and solar-powered plane correct yes exactly that was the flight of all the way from Nagar Yahoo to Hawaii and what is great is to see that this airplane in several days several right now we have when I could be at nap take it was three days and three nights we had several slides of two days and two nights with all the way so so you see it can fly and you longer because it has no fuel because we found a another way to do but before all the airplanes would be sonar of course there will be a lot of time I think the first step relation will be to become electric because electric motors are much better efficiency of course batteries are heavier than fuel but I bet that in ten years time you will have electric airplanes flying with 50 people on board for show to mediaforce light and this will happen in the next 10 years so maybe that fully solar but fully electric degraded of the airport before taking off switch other lot of advantages yeah if you like there's a renaissance and solar powered planes right now I mean Facebook Mark Zuckerberg just launched they're playing the Aquila plane last are in June but they just released a video of it last week did you did you get a chance to check that out and and what are your you know one of your remarks are regarding that yes of course I saw it that solar Facebook is beautiful it is a fantastic shape and their plane that this beautiful always flies well and you know cool well it reminds me you know 17 years ago it was just after my food would slice around the world when I started to speak of an airplane flying around the world without fuel everybody thought I was completely crazy and now things start to happen which is good that's the role of pioneering to open the way and they give the ways to people to try this is what is missing in our world today people are stuck with old devices all the sources of energy and they think they will be able to live forever with it but it's wrong it's completely wrong the world is going in the wrong direction we are destroying the planet were polluting the environment were depleting the natural resources were poisoning the lungs of the children were breathing the air that we have absolutely we must do differently I know I know how you feel like when I when I put gasoline in my car I feel like this is archaic like why am I still putting fossil fuels in my car but you know that's that's the way life is right now but um you you've been working on this project since 1999 correct how does it feel to be you're just hours away from finishing your trip around the world how does it feel to be almost done with with this major accomplishment the others if I think about it I become too much emotional so when I took off yesterday morning in Egypt i i i was thinking i'm doing this right as a pilot not as the nature of the project i'm doing it as a pilot to bring the plane to Abu Dhabi I well to to enjoy the slides also to give interviews to speak about technologies but I try not to remember that it's the last slide otherwise I will have tears in my eyes and my voice will break that's wait for up with a beat we celebrate and you know still the day and the night to go challenging it's nuts because it's the last flight that you see I remains very difficult especially over deserts where you have turbos where you have proven answers I can even though I have to focus on the top yes so during this whole journey which has been you know the last year more than a year of your life just going around the world not not even counting building the plane but what was the most memorable experience for you so far on this trip I think they were two things that were fantastic one was crossing the Atlantic in the in the solar-powered airplane because I met bird when I was a child I talked to him that's okay flying over the Atlantic for the first time with his solar-powered airplane that was great because Charles did Bergen go to Paris to open the way to commercial air transport them my goal was to use the symbol of the Atlantic to open the way to much more implementation of skin technologies so that was really a highlight for me and another highlight of course was when I could speak either to ban ki-moon the secretary-general of the United Nations from the cockpit of so knowing most when I was about the the Pacific speaking to the hesitation and really demonstrate that all these new technologies they are materials they can be used everywhere not just for airplane but they can be used to replace all the old systems that are polluting and if you replace all that you you make profit to create jobs you'd improve the industry so you see a what I told ban ki-moon is that now there is no need to be only ecological you can just be a chicken using the clean technologies if this will protect that by Matt also and it's really amazing what you guys done I got to go to Moffett Field when you guys were there an interview and interview some people and we also got to watch the the airplane take off from the runway it was pretty surreal experience you know like I see videos of the Wright brothers when they're testing their first plane and there's people milling around you know just kind of watching and I see videos of you know the Apollo spaceships taking off and there's people watching from afar and I you know I feel like I'm one of those people you got to watch something extraordinary happen so I want to thank you for that but um what is next for the Solar Impulse team what are you guys what is next after you guys accomplish your goal what are you guys planning next we have a user experience in our technical team for solar-powered airplanes with high payload and you know there is a huge development direction to replace analyze for observation for internet and so on and that we are working of that and also a Borschberg my partner who is leading the technical team is very keen to develop that's cause I would like to also develop electric airplanes for transport or for passengers because I think it's really worth it and what we will do of course now is to evoke the International Committee for clean technologies like a World Council of Technology is that I announced when I was flying above the Atlantic and this is a way to give a common toys more power to the association institution organization and are working in technologies and renewable energy because they are not organized together as a community and we need these to be able to advise the governance and to go impact on the energy policy so this is really what we call now you're following Paul's solo impose allows us to do that and now we're going to do it that's fantastic I'm really happy to hear everything is going so well thank you so much for your time Bertrand Piccard does pilot of the Solar Impulse he's above he's over Saudi Arabia right now flying live and this is all happening live is it okay if I call you Captain Picard cuz I think that's a thing right yes but you know that captain because it's no Trek was named after the TWiT brother of my grandfather no way the stratospheric slide to the balloon in the US and the creator of Star Trek 2 came as an inspiration for Captain Picard so it's really sunny that's fantastic well thank you so much for your time and good luck I'm I'm very excited for you guys it's gonna be really cool to see you guys land yes thank you very much for your support all right have a go on alright guys that was Captain Picard in the solder in place - and he's taken off he's flying off into the desert so uh we will catch you guys check out all of our coverage at cnet.com there we produce a lot of videos about the Solar Impulse in the Facebook playing the Aquila so check out all of our coverage at cnet.com and we'll check you out next time thank you very much and have a great night