Photos: Cruising with GlobalFlyer
GlobalFlyer takes off with the goal of completing a nonstop around-the-world flight in 80 hours.
Cruising with GlobalFlyer
GlobalFlyer took off from Salina, Kan., on Tuesday with the goal of completing a nonstop around-the-world flight in 80 hours.
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Cruising with GlobalFlyer
GlobalFlyer's pilot, Steve Fossett, is already a well-known adventurer and balloonist. In past years, Fossett, 60, swam the English Channel and piloted a hot-air balloon around the world nonstop.
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Cruising with GlobalFlyer
Pilot Steve Fossett poses with Sir Richard Branson, chairman and founder of Virgin Atlantic, the company behind the GlobalFlyer effort.
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Cruising with GlobalFlyer
GlobalFlyer over the Atlas Mountains of northwest Africa.
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Cruising with GlobalFlyer
A view from GlobalFlyer's window while the craft was in flight. This photo was taken in November.
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