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Mildly interestingly, the pilot's name is Bertrand Piccard.
by curiousgal 10y ago
Mildly interestingly, the pilot's name is Bertrand Piccard.
- cstuder 10y agoWhat's interesting about the name exactly? The person himself is (unsurprisingly) from _the_ Piccard family.
- cpursley 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Picard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Picard ?
- m_mueller 10y agoYep, named after Auguste Piccard (and his brother Jean), grandfather of Bertrand and father of the mariana trench explorer Jacques. Pretty crazy family that is. So if you thought the name of the pilot is interesting, it's in fact the other way round - the name is interesting because of this family.