Posted on 02/11/2006 10:28:00 AM PST by protest1
How many frequent fly miles did he rack up?
Richard Branson is a credit to the British. I think he epitomizes The "American Dream", and he ain't even 'merican!
He's American at heart. ;-)
Depends....
Just for the record, to properly understand this group, visit the Smithsonian Air And Space Museum on the mall and the Annex at Dulles. To actually see these historical craft and marvel at their smallness gives the adventure a new perspective.
Funny.
While scrolling FR for news stories, I say your post... while listening to the song "Get Here" ("You can reach me by a big balloon...")
It's called labelling. Sort of like saying "A**hole reporters".
Steve Fossett has balls the size of cantalopes. His around-the-world sailing gigs were dangerous enough. The world's greatest adventurer bar none.
Probably stuck by approach control in a holding pattern.
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I don't think so. Too heavy for the mission. As to the other question, I suspect he had a one of those men's urinal bottles you get in hospitals that he emptied occasionally over unpopulated regions.
Well done, Steve.
Fossett Sets Flight Distance RecordThe flight, which began at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 7:22 a.m. (Eastern time) Wednesday, lasted 76 hours and 45 minutes and covered 26,389.3 miles, the GlobalFlyer Web site said, more than 1,000 miles farther than the flight of the balloon Breitling Orbiter 3 in 1999.
by Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 12, 2006; Page A18
Help us fight childhood blindnessOver half a million children go blind each year - yet the medical and scientific knowledge to prevent and cure most cases of childhood blindness already exists. But the skills and technology are concentrated in the richer countries whilst the need is concentrated in the poorer ones.
Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer: Charity
"Early Saturday, Fossett decided to try to finish the trip after reaching the middle of the Atlantic.
Duh.
Cordially,
It can't possibly be 1,400 miles between them! So, where'd he go in the meantime?
I checked and they're about 330 miles apart. Beats me why he couldn't get to his intended destination in Kent if he had an extra thousand miles to play with.
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