Fuel leak forces Fossett to scrub take-off plan

Apparently Steve Fossett isn’t quite ready to take off on his flight around 7/6th of the world.

This past summer, in Oshkosh, Steve Fossett also arrived in the Global Flyer, which Virgin Atlantic paid for. When Global Flyer landed, Steve and Richard Branson both gave a speech.

Global Flyer is a pretty amazing technological advancement. it’s very thin.As you can see in this picture,

At the time, they had said that they were going to make another attempt to fly around the world, and that they were going to go farther. There was a record that they hadn’t broken, and they wanted to do so. Can’t say I blame them. If you’ve got what it takes, you might as well do it.

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