"Air Racer: Chasing the Dream" US TV Premiere

This documentary movie is worth watching. I have my own copy on DVD. There's nothing like air racing!

"Air Racer: Chasing the Dream" premieres on The Documentary Channel on Monday, July 12, 2010.

For a complete of list of showtimes, please visit www.DocumentaryChannel.com.

See the trailer at www.AirRacerTheMovie.com.

Air racing is the world’s fastest and most dangerous motor sport. The new feature documentary "Air Racer: Chasing the Dream" follows inventor and race pilot Jon Sharp and his wife Patricia over a six-year journey to create the world’s most advanced racing airplane, the Nemesis NXT. They put everything on the line, including Jon’s life, to realize a dream that's much larger than just winning a race… they intend to change air racing forever by offering their revolutionary design to other pilots.

With the help of a close-knit team of volunteers, Jon and Patricia design, build, test, and race their cutting-edge aircraft. As they race their creation against some of the best pilots in the world, they almost lose everything during a crash landing in front of fans and competitors. Jon and Patricia are faced with the possibility of failure after years of total commitment to their project. They must find a way to carry on and keep their dream alive if they hope to realize the true potential of what they have created. In the end, the reality of their achievement reaches so far beyond anyone’s expectations that air racing will never be the same again.

What People Are Saying

"'Air Racer' is a documentary about the elite world of air racing. The movie profiles a husband and wife team that try to create the most advanced, purpose-built air racing airplane ever built. The result is an exciting look at the competitive, but rarely seen world of air racing."

-Jason Paur, WIRED.com

"Unbelievable. Breathtaking. And above all… REAL. This is a movie about air racing that looks like it can hit the holy grail of appealing to the general public and also be something we can all get behind."

-AAFO.com, HangarTalk

"'Air Racer' is a skillful blending of the personal and technical aspects of air racing that spectators never get to see. It’s all there... The next best thing to being at the Reno Air Races. Highly recommended."

-Jack Cox, Sportsman Pilot magazine

Solar Impulse

This press release received...

It all began with a crazy idea: the ambition to fly around the world in a solar airplane without fuel. In a world depending on fossil energies, the Solar Impulse project is a paradox, almost a provocation: it aims to have an airplane take off and fly autonomously, day and night, propelled uniquely by solar energy, right round the world without fuel or pollution. An unachievable goal without pushing back the current technological limits in all fields...

Next step: after around 10 successful test flights, the Solar Impulse Team is about to fly through a whole night this month! The greatest challenge, before the round-the-world trip, will be this first complete night flight.

ALTRAN - Solar Impulse Official Engineering Partner > The ALTRAN group, leading innovation consultant, is placing its multi-disciplinary expertise (project management, risk management, etc.) and its multi-sector (aeronautics, renewable energies, etc.), at the disposal of Solar Impulse. ALTRAN has created a flight simulator to optimize technological choices for the construction of the aircraft, to precise calculations and energy management, so as to develop genuine flight mission strategies in real weather conditions.

From the 1st flight, the simulator showed its efficiency and it is improved at each new flight.

The night flight opens a door for technology that will be essential to future generations.

- Altran dedicated webpage : http://www.altran.com/solarimpulse

- Night Flight Video Teaser : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQqCikS3wqw

- Officiel Event Twitter : http://twitter.com/solarimpulse