. >> simon: it looks like it's flown straight out of jules verne.t, it weighs less than an s.u.v., and needs only 165 yards of runway to take off, compared to over a mile for a commercial jet. it has unnaturally long wings. rather than fly, the plane seems to glide like a giant dragonfly. >> bertrand piccard: andre... >> simon: the plane was created by bertrand piccard and his business partner, andre borschberg, and if there ever was an odd couple, you're looking at them. andre is a pilot and an engineer, but never worked on building an airplane. until six years ago, bertrand didn't even know how to fly one. he's a psychiatrist, an expert in hypnosis, and one of the most intense human beings we've ever met. we saw the plane take off and land last night. never seen anything like it >> bertrand piccard: an airplane like this doesn't exist anywhere else. >> simon: and very recently, it existed nowhere but in your imagination. >> piccard: yeah, that's true. >> simon: if piccard was the dreamer, he relied on his partner borschberg to be the nuts-and-bolt