Bruce Hoult wrote in message ...
In article ,
(The Green Troll) wrote:
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.

The FAI is no authority on geometry. I hope some pilot defies that
warped pretense by flying over both poles.

-- Lead Baron http://www.rev.net/~aloe/geography