article_snippet.sent: Piccard, along with Andre Borschberg, a Swiss engineer, are taking turns flying the single-seater aircraft, which took off from Abu Dhabi on March 9 and has successfully flown through Oman, India, and Myanmar.
article_snippet.sent: In many ways, it has become Piccard and Borschberg's raison d'etre.
article_snippet.sent: Piccard spends a few hours of the afternoon in the cockpit, training to prepare for the Solar Impulse's crossings over the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean, what the team calls "the moment of truth.
article_snippet.sent: We've been waiting for that moment since so long," says Piccard.
article_snippet.sent: Borschberg and Piccard, who piloted an earlier version of The plane across the U.S. in 2013, are no strangers to adventure.
article_snippet.sent: Borschberg is a former fighter pilot, and Piccard was part of the first team to circumnavigate the earth nonstop in a balloon in 1999.