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GlobalFlyer Aims To Go Voyager One Better

Posted by timothy on from the round-and-round dept.

LucidBeast writes "We all remember Voyager, the first plane to fly around the world in 1986 on one tank of gas. Now Voyager pilot Steve Fossett plans to do it solo with a jet powered GlobalFlyer. See also New York Times article about it (registration required). The idea of the solo flight according to this story originated with the Voyager builder Dick Rutan." Update: 12/01 13:25 GMT by T : Note, the original submission reversed the roles of Rutan and Fossett; Fossett is the pilot, while Rutan (and his company, Scaled Composites) is the builder.

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  1. Re:How to stay awake? by pe1rxq · · Score: 2, Funny

    Caffeine patches???
    (Or have I been reading UF to much?)

    Jeroen

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  2. Re:Recall, Recall, Recall! by julesh · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why not just implant the memory of flying solo around the world in a jet - as a secret agent?

    (Too many Arnie movies)

    Too many Philip K Dick books for me.

    I'm getting the strangest feeling that somebody's watching me....

  3. Re:Eh? by Muad'Dave · · Score: 1, Funny

    And Bob Fosse was a choreographer.

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  4. How do they plan to wake him? by nathan+s · · Score: 2, Funny

    The most obvious solution is some sort of manually-controlled thumbtack in the pilot's seat that jabs him when an appropriate button is pressed at mission-control...

    But seriously, hope he's not a deep sleeper:-)

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