It is unbelievable achievement from those guys. Rutan is absolutely the best
engineer and unconventional dreamer. That's real engineering what he is
doing!

Congratulation to Steve for his remarkable success. I could not imagine to
be without sleep for so many hours with the jet engine screaming above your
head. I hope that Steve Fossett will stop now, because statistically he is
overdue to be killed in his risky adventures.

I was very disappointed with the Global Flyer website. The first day the GPS
coordinates were wrong, and it was almost impossible to access their site.
They posted very little information. I could get more info from CNN than
from their site. It took almost a day to mention anything about their fuel
problem.

The site was totally overloaded during the last few hours. Now 6 hours after
the touch down, there is still no update how it was during the final hours.
No pictures, clips, written text. I do not have access to CNN TV and the
local news show nothing.

Regardless, I hope the Rutan will live forever or that he is grooming
somebody as good as he is to continue in his unconventional designs.


Jan Nademlejnsky
http://members.shaw.ca/jannadem/home.htm