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(The Green Troll) wrote:

"f.blair" wrote in message
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I saw a posting on a web site about Steve Fossett's around the world
flight.

He didn't go around the world, only around the north end, a shorter
distance. He never crossed the equator (among great circles).

He used what the FAI definition has *always* been. Yeah, so it would be
nice if the definition involved flying over at least one pair of points
that are the opposite each other, but it's not.

btw there is an upcoming atempt to fly around the world non-stop using
solar energy. The plans depend on being able to fly through the night
on stored energy. They've figured that batteries will be good enough in
2009.

http://www.solarnavigator.net/solar_impulse.htm

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