Global Flyer Success

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