What privately financed project was led my Andre Borscheberg, Bertrand Piccard, and Brian Jones?
Bertrand Piccard Bertrand Piccard (born 1 March 1958) is a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist. Along with Brian Jones, he was the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe, in a balloon named Breitling Orbiter 3. He was the initiator, chairman, and co-pilot, with André Borschberg, of Solar Impulse, the first successful round-the-world solar powered flight.
Cercle de l'Oratoire The Cercle de l'Oratoire (French for "Oratory Circle") is a French think tank created a short time after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Since 2006, it edits a journal, "Le Meilleur des mondes". The Circle is led by the journalist Michel Taubmann, who is also in charge of the news at Arte-Paris, and of his wife Florence, a pastor at the Temple de l'oratoire du Louvre and vice-president of the "Amitié judéo-chrétienne" group (Judeo-Christian Friendship). Many of its members (André Glucksmann, Pascal Bruckner, Romain Goupil, etc.) and the "Meilleur des mondes" journal supported the US invasion of Iraq, a minority viewpoint in France.