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Seventh try to circumnavigate the world solo by balloon for Steve Fossett

Saint Louis, Usa - He is supposed to take off at the end of next month

The American billionaire Steve Fossett said he is ready to start his seventh attempt to make a nonstop solo round-the-world balloon flight. The manufacturer Cameron Balloon confirmed the passionate balloonist had ordered a new aerostat. Fossett, 58, is supposed to take off at the end of next month from Northam, Australia, about a hundred km from Perth. His sixth attempt aborted last summer in Brasil...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 28105
Rome, Italy, 05/14/2002 15:08
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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