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Steve Fosset attempts to break closed-circuit flight record

Salina, USA - The adventurer left for the second trip around the globe

The American millionaire adventurer Steve Fosset took off from a Salina airport, Kansas, yesterday at 6:40 am (local time) on board of a Virgin Atlantic "GlobalFlyer". The journey will take him back to the same point where he left, for a closed-circuit flight around the globe. The purpose is to break Fosset’s last year record time, 67 hours for total 37,000 kilometers (23,000 miles). This year the r...

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Rome, Italy, 03/15/2006 10:55
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