Bertrand Piccard, who hails from a lineage of record-breaking explorers (his gramps was the inspiration for Professor Calculus in the Tintin comics while his dad went seven miles deep down into the Pacific Ocean), assembled a 80-strong team of engineers and technicians who have emerged with the Solar Impulse, a majestic solar-powered glider that weighs just 3,500 pounds.

It comes with 208-foot wings and four lithium polymer batteries to store energy from nearly 12,000 solar cells. By day, these batteries accumulate energy with the plane climbing up to 30,000 feet; at sunset, it glides to lower altitudes on stored power. Test flights have already started. It sounds cool. It looks cool. It’s cool.

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Michael Massaia is a fine art photographer and print maker who focuses on documenting isolation, disconnectedness and the ordinary. Borrowed Time is a series that focuses on the emotional steps a passenger would take during a mid flight engine failure: horror, relief, freedom. Apparently the series was produced without the use of Photoshop or digital composites. How? We have no idea.

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For many of us the act of traveling by air — whilst not a daily activity — is now a regular part of our lives. Whether it be for pleasure or business, this very unnatural experience of being transported from country to country, or even continent-to-continent, at speeds of many hundreds of miles and hour, has become an accepted part of our social life.

Says Phillip Kalantzis-Cope of this series: ‘When we climb to 30,000 feet, our perspective becomes that of a deity, with the rules of time and space altered as we rush over the earth. In flight we are able to view the most remote corners of the natural world and the vast spread of the world we have constructed. It gives us the unique perspective to look at the interaction of the natural and constructed in a truly holistic way’.

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