Enjoy a screening of Peace Pilot: To the Ends of the Earth and Beyond, the story of pilot Robert DeLaurentis' nine-month mission for peace: a nine-month flight from the South Pole to the North Pole. Q&A with DeLaurentis to follow the film.
Event Details
Date: Sunday, September 29, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
FREE with Membership and included with general admission.
Presented as part of the Museum's World Flight Centennial Celebration.
About the Pilot
Former Naval officer turned pilot Robert DeLaurentis completed a nine-month mission to share peace worldwide by connecting the two places on the planet where peace has always existed — the North and South Poles — with everyone in between. As part of this mission, Robert carried a Wafer Scale Spacecraft for NASA and an atmospheric plastics testing experiment for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
DeLaurentis named his highly modified 1983 twin-engine aircraft, “Citizen of the World” to showcase his mission, “One Planet, One People, One Plane: Oneness for Humanity.” He and his worldwide support team have filmed a ten-part docuseries called “Peace Pilot: To the Ends of the Earth and Beyond”. The docuseries includes interviews with many different types of people including NGO leaders and local residents in the 22 countries on six continents that he visited along the way, examining what it means to be a “Citizen of the World for the World.”
In addition, DeLaurentis also set multiple first-time aviation innovation records including:
- Successfully used biofuels over the North and South poles for the first time ever
- Longest distance flown in a twin- or single-engine turboprop—18.1 hours
- First and fastest Polar circumnavigation of the planet in a twin- or single-engine turboprop
- First testing for plastic microfibers across the globe including over the South and North poles
- First testing of NASA WaferScale Spaceship outside of Santa Barbara
