The Thrill of Flying a Solar Plane With a Coffin-Sized Cockpit

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Pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg show WIRED around the enormous solar-panel covered wings of the Solar Impulse 2 plane and inside its cramped cockpit.
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The Thrill of Flying a Solar Plane With a Coffin-Sized Cockpit
Starring: Alex Davies
Producer: Sean Patrick Farrell

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@gauz44 8 лет назад

1:40, the guy trips on some wires 😂

@exebnu 8 лет назад

+DJ Wolf lol

@Wedge1201 8 лет назад

XDDDDDDDDDD

@Spacekriek 7 лет назад

Almost destroys the plane in the process :D

@zevlander 7 лет назад

Combat Engineer w

@dalekslayer777 4 года назад

Thank you 🙏 seriously made my day

@monkeyman522 5 лет назад

Bet that cockpit smells amazing after a long flight.

@aerobetamax6022 4 года назад

monkeyman522 Probably cycle the air. Would be no reason to have a completely closed cockpit.

@jameswall2602 4 года назад

@@aerobetamax6022 very funny

@Henriburger1 5 лет назад

What about a zeppelin with solar panels on it? Tons more solar panels so tons more power. Faster flight and the helium holds you up so you can have a bigger and heavier cockpit. That would bring back the days of luxury zeppelin travel over the seas. Imagine feeling like your on a cruise ship but going 80mph over the ocean with no waves. Sounds awesome.

@huey-fan8335 3 года назад

@@Clonetrone Hydrogen has almost the lifting capacity of Helium? It's 4 times lighter, it can handle more weight as the same volume of Helium!

@huey-fan8335 2 года назад

@@Clonetrone I know....like the Hindenburg, R101 etc....

@earlkentsucalit3301 7 лет назад

this is some zombie apocalypse survivor plane

@potatoking9943 6 лет назад

Earl Kent Sucalit yes

@MsLia32 6 лет назад

Clearly hasn't watched world war Z

@davecrupel2817 4 года назад

Right?! I'd cram it with as much food, water & toilet paper/paper towels as possible and just stay at 7000 feet for like 3 weeks. That would be amazing :D I wouldnt even wait for an apocalypse to do it.

@cemoguz2786 3 года назад

yes

@v1d300 8 лет назад

With pilots like these, this will surely be a great success. The pilots sound too passionate and ambitious to fail. Good luck and great job.

@ilyasschito4012 8 лет назад

+v1d300 its just the accent but still cool

@f1paddockpulse 8 лет назад

I live in Hawaii and I got to visit the plane when it was here. very cool technology

@morse8622 5 лет назад

Solar.

@confuded 8 лет назад

His name is Pcard. That sounds already promising...

@bolunz7766 4 года назад

Hakkensha Shinsekait Star Trek Picard is actually named after his grandfather, he has quite an amazing family history.

@AndriiPovkh 6 лет назад

So within 10 years time there will be 50 people flying commercial as passengers in an electric airplane and taking dump in their sits. That's a small price to pay for a cheap flight!

@navylaks2 6 лет назад

Why not take a dump on the people below;)

@MsLia32 6 лет назад

Make a hole in the seats

@DougFM 3 года назад

Make it so, Piccard.

@graytlo 8 лет назад

I remember following this flight last year! I hope this leads to some great new discoveries.

@JerryDLTN 4 года назад

As of May 25, 2020, I think they'll need to double the speed and make the cockpit the size for two pilots before we could have commercial solar plane flights...no way we'd have a 50 person commercial solar plane by 2026.

@jackfereday641 8 лет назад

This is so cool

@jorgeu111 8 лет назад

this is awesome! great job!

@ErronKebabb 6 лет назад

This is so awesome!!

@Theredhaunter 8 лет назад

But is there wifi?

@linecraftman3907 5 лет назад

@@NerdyNEET you know if you can afford a custom built plane and crap ton of service equipment and staff , you can probably afford satellite internet :)

@punitarathi4127 3 года назад

@@NerdyNEET Elon Musk 😁😁

@ferventheat 5 лет назад

Piccard: make it So-lar, number one

@ampere400 3 года назад

ok, 5 years later now. Bet is still running

@civicsr2cool 8 лет назад

I love this. if the technology can keep growing to be able to hold a payload we'd change the aviation world quickly!

@highspacefox 8 лет назад

+civicsr2cool the future of hotels in the sky is not far off

@civicsr2cool 8 лет назад

+highspacefox more like constant monitoring drones lol

@davecrupel2817 4 года назад

I like the idea of these serving as mobile signal hubs. Or Reeeally big ones serve as flying supply caches. Or delivery drones. The possibilities, as ive demonstrated, are endless!

@ivankontra3446 3 года назад

you realize this isnt using any new tech

@TiberiusMaximus 6 лет назад

wow, they really have come a long way, that cockpit is amazing and I imagine the cockpit must be pressurized? I wonder how they do that and provide heat for the pilot to be comfortable? Also I wonder how much turbulence those wings can take?

@dasfreshyo 7 лет назад

Moffet Field is in Mountain View CA. not Palo Alto Ca.

@Crlarl 8 лет назад

Be careful not to fold the wings.

@i-use-arch-btw3954 6 лет назад

my paper airplane looks like a happy meal toy compared to this

@davecrupel2817 4 года назад

flying in that thing seems like such a quiet, peaceful experience. I'd probably fall asleep. Mine better come with a good AP system. lol

@Lil_Alpha 4 года назад

If this solar powerd plane had 6 engines, it will look awesome

@jamiejune2163 7 лет назад

wow

@Colinthecasualcook 8 лет назад

Would there be any practical applications if we turned this type of plane into a drone? It could fly itself and theoretically, it would never have to land.

@GoWILDization 8 лет назад

There's probably already something like that

@mutantyengecedits251 7 лет назад

+GoWILD rctestflight on youtube did it

@honkhonk8009 6 лет назад

Its already been done. Search up solar FPV plane

@adamhale6672 4 года назад

Rc TestFlight has done it and we are considering the idea at Brigham young university. People are on to that idea too! Also NASAs flying wing and some other experimentals. But manned is truly special.

@matthias5209 4 года назад

@@adamhale6672 a Quadcopter needs more energie because it has to power four motors

@MarkDanielLouwe 5 лет назад

we can build floating cities with these

@CaptainCore993 8 лет назад

This went AROUND the world,not from just Hawaii to California.

@kidpog3d101 6 лет назад

you would need to travel multiple times around the world to stay under sunhours

@chrisjames6501 4 года назад

I’m late but this is awesome

@jacobperryofficial 6 лет назад

Military is about to use this to make drones that fly forever

@linecraftman3907 5 лет назад

yeah but we have satellites already

@MyVash12349 5 лет назад

those already exist

@punitarathi4127 3 года назад

@@linecraftman3907 But this can be used as Cheap Frequently Reusable Pseudo Statalites

@ryanestes7331 6 лет назад

Coffin sized cockpit my butt. That's a nice single place seat

@jonwik7056 3 года назад

toilet under the seat was the most disturbing thing ive seen in tech

@andrewkiminhwan 8 лет назад

thats like a glofiried trucker's life haha dang must be a blast

@kmatt7689 5 лет назад

Haruto Happy Bday

@user-of7zg1fo3w 5 лет назад

thankyou

@TheJbro765 8 лет назад

When did they go to midget?!? I wish I could have visited or something :/ I'm so closeeee

@randomnessx3597 6 лет назад

how much would one of these cost

@swatxian 8 лет назад

This is the future !!!!!

@ivankontra3446 3 года назад

you realize you have to replace the solar cells

@rcbif101 7 лет назад

Faaaarrr from a "coffin size" cockpit. Look at a modern single place competition sailplane for that.

@hamza-ez 5 лет назад

What about night ?? You have batteries?

@SwissAvgeek 5 лет назад

The solar panels charge some batteries during the day (and provide power for the plane) and during night these batteries activate! I think it's pretty cool!

@lightcorrection 6 лет назад

*_Holy shit_*

@MsLia32 6 лет назад

Should be a requirement for air force 1

@o0julek0o 3 года назад

5 years later, and there's no sign of solar passenger planes.

@ivankontra3446 3 года назад

99.9% of "tHiS iS the FutUre" trend are hype I think everyone gets it but virtue signals

@thomaswilson4317 8 лет назад

I wont to go on this 😀🙏🙏🙏

@elijahtill7734 6 лет назад

its the new zepplin

@Mr.Truong_Tham_My 4 года назад

2:14

@philknight5182 4 года назад

I need more details on the toilet.

@30769s 5 лет назад

flying across an ocean slower than a Cessna?! Dont get me wrong thats some epic technology but I will go crazy flying that slow for more than 10 hours. (I fly cessnas and they are fast enough for the joy flights and short hops I do)

@zygmaszel8376 3 года назад

Bravo Francaise sont incroilable 🛫

@danielmoret7369 3 года назад

Ce n'est pas des français, mais des suisses !

@chrisjames6501 4 года назад

I wanna see how far they are today. Did they figure out a way to increase speed or maybe combined solar and fuel. Fuel for speed and solar for hover Mmm it’s amazing when I think about

@JackMMcMullan 4 года назад

So at night?

@sharptoothtrex4486 3 года назад

Great idea for passenger and private jets combined with electricity. This saves all airports on jet fuel booming the airport profits. Cuba needs something like that along with solar electric powered passenger boats.

@berg8427 4 года назад

I wonder if the solar panels curved or spread around the exterior body of the plane

@Samuel-ni7vv 6 лет назад

i would be really worried to be hit by lightning in such a plane.

@CloudDayLight 4 года назад

This could replace sattelites if rockets can't get cheaper

@excaliber8794 5 лет назад

I wonder who takes the videos in the air

@lorenzolohman451 3 года назад

Why not put on windmills to repower or increase power to the plane systems?

@melonate8781 6 лет назад

What about small solar blimps

@kuanged 4 года назад

How does it fly forever? The plane flies too slowly to outrun sundown so it must have batteries to take it through the night, but can the batteries really power the plane for that long? And batteries are heavy. How did they get around the weight issue?

@alisao2477 3 года назад

at 1:40 someone tripped on a wire lol

@NetLockGaming 5 лет назад

This might sound dumb but why not make it a bi plane or even a tri plane with the wings behind and below one another ? So that way the wings aren’t as long

@danielharman4437 8 лет назад

Why not make them autonomous. Have them as like servailance drones

@ZMacZ 3 года назад

Oh plz, use an autopilot, and nap for a few hours, with the alert being electroshocks to the body when ship hits fan.

@thiagov6123 6 лет назад

10 years is a bit optimistic

@DantheAuthor 8 лет назад

I could see this becoming a thing if 1. They can make the plane go faster. -or- 2. They can make the space more lively. If I can basically have a tiny apartment. I won't care if it takes days and days to get somewhere an airliner can reach in 10 hours. I've seen people build tiny, tiny houses the size of a small pickup truck or so. f I could have a bathroom, bedroom, and living room in 1 tiny area - I wouldn't mind at all.

@blinkshadown 8 лет назад

not this night.......

@HUEEY 6 лет назад

What happens at night? Does it have enough artery power to maintain flight?

@nemanjabojanic3024 6 лет назад

yes, at night he uses batteries

@ilaser4064 4 года назад

Hope they were recharging using solar power...

@Live-Life-Freely 8 лет назад

why are the related videos airplane crash videos?

@stopit9506 6 лет назад

lets make an AirBus a380 solar lul

@keshaborja8564 8 лет назад

If you want to make eco just use inplix handbooks

@kweengowther3103 8 лет назад

The future is here,nerdgasm😣😮

@FurysRage1 5 лет назад

how does a solar plane fly at night.

@dalesmith8403 5 лет назад

Can see it now ! Self Pilot Air Cargo Carriers . All in a flight way around the world. AEYE would love this job. Not in anybody's way , just doing it's created job. Pretty much like the creators , do too. Could link up with ship traffic for AEYE conversation about that weird object that came on systems analysis , with no reported traffic on schedule . And , Personal Solar Yachts would be the rage of planet luxury Life . OH ! after the Nano Gravity Displacement Generators are designed light weight , for air travel . Small pods , instead of wings. with pusher fans for forward navigation. and the CHILDREN of the Whole Wide World are Watching !

@johnberner2012 5 лет назад

You could use this to prove that the earth is flat. Just program a way to travel line of sight with a star or something instead of using GPS that way you keep going perfectly straight then you should reach the same exact spot when you come back around.

@linecraftman3907 5 лет назад

Going really high is enough

@shoshanakent3645 4 года назад

Wow! Good for them. Their story is in a Grade 7 English textbook in Israel. I am the teacher.

@back2backgaminghd756 8 лет назад

i mean the toilet doesent seam that bad i mean i think its pretty comfterbal

@01untitleduntitled 6 лет назад

funny how the project is being discredited by terms like "coffin-sized" or "cramped" cockpit, and by the whole tone of the video. We can see clearly who is behind WIRED after all, (here aka. fuel lobbies)

@peterbecker8907 7 лет назад

You expected Emirates Air comfort? ...besides, they helped pay for it!

@LarlemMagic 8 лет назад

So spydrones then.

@Crlarl 8 лет назад

+LarlemMagic Basically. I'm sure private military contractors are developing electric drones.

@ZMacZ 3 года назад

2:19 Guy wears air mask when taking potty break ? So...where do the potty break produce goes ? Bombs away ?

@danyala.1659 8 лет назад

Add auto pilot, So it can go around the globe forever.

@uglygiantbagsofmostlywater 8 лет назад

arg come one, you don't need that extra C

@jeroenvanede 5 лет назад

it would have to go a lot faster to keep up with the sun richt. so i dont see how you can fly for ever

@callumsworld2503 5 лет назад

Batteries.

@younevergonnaknowme5425 2 года назад

NBS student

@ChanceBeard 4 года назад

4yrs later and no real increase in electric vehicles, let alone planes.

@gravelydon7072 2 года назад

1 year after your comment and Tesla is making up to 1 million a year. Seems there isn't a day that goes by down here that I don't see more than one on the road.

@TheArctanx 6 лет назад

I rather ride a rocket from a to b in 5 minutes than fly a slow solar panel airplane for a week

@roidroid 8 лет назад

Shitting on smart cars eh Wired? Ah, those wonderful little things that remind everyone of exactly what sortof media outlet they're listening to.

@ForbiddenOldman 4 года назад

стул как у валакаса

@kightremin Год назад

Stomach is the limit

@xXAddictedMiner64Xx 8 лет назад

this would be great if there was a zombie apocalypse

@Alexandre-wu5hl 8 лет назад

This frensh sexy accent!

@anthonypeterson1716 4 года назад

So this video came out 4 years ago and he bets in 10 years 50 people will be flying on an electric plane. Electric planes will never be a thing. Anyone who thinks so has no idea how much energy it takes to keep a plane full of people aloft. Just a feel good video with no path to it becoming realistic.

@southtowntx 8 лет назад

2nd

@ReaperCheGuevara 5 лет назад

1:20 ...In his custom "voice stutters" inflatable hangar. Did anyone else catch that? I thought it was pretty funny.

@OhFishyFish 8 лет назад

2:35 - Sure, let's bet. Remember when we were supposed to colonize Mars by year 2000?

@allen-7335 8 лет назад

spacex will be colonizing mars in a few years.

@galvinstanley3235 8 лет назад

SpaceX also said that the first people on Mars won't be coming back.So if you are one of the first people that go,you most likely will die of Solar radiation and Gama radiation poisoning.Mars is an orange big wasteland,of nothing.What are we really trying to accomplish by going to mars?,or any other planet?Sending robots to mars is enough,and even they haven't found anything special about the planet.We now have the James Webb telescope to look at other worlds.and though it is exciting to find new planets,it's a waste of time trying to get to one.

@peterbecker8907 7 лет назад

I think that is what the doubters said to Columbus ( even though he knew he had a chart of where to go). I am sure Mars can do with out folks who don't want to go. So now you will say," Look the disaster that happened when Columbus came to the new world!",,,but the Vikings and the Albans and even the Irish had been here first, not to mention neolithic men...( left their DNA behind in the Northern US Tribes!)....so let it go....just suffer in peace..please

@allen-7335 7 лет назад

he never said that, he said the first people should be willing to accept the risk of them potentially dying.

@furzekake1 6 лет назад

he is pretty optimistic if he really thinks in 10 years 50 people will be able to fly in one go. It will be not possible. It would take at least 25 years.