GlobalFlyer Ready to Make History
Credit: NASA
The Scaled Composites/Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer aircraft and pilot Steve Fossett are poised for a dawn takeoff from the space shuttle runway here in a high-risk bid to eclipse the Breitling balloon and Voyager aircraft world absolute distance flight records. The goal is for the GlobalFlyer to...
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