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Fossett, the billionaire with a strong passion for challenges, is flying around the world

Washington, Usa - His return, if everything carries on according to plan, is forecast on Thursday morning

A tour around the world alone without any stopover in 80-hour time: Would the adventure sixty year old man Steve Fossett succeed in his initiative? The man, who has a certain familiarity with initiatives of this king having effectuating the same tour by means of a balloon and having circumnavigated the earth in sailing boat establishing in both cases a record (see AVIONEWS), took off yesterday in the...

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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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