Global Flyer Lands, Breaks Record

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Feb 11th 2006 at 5:30PM

Steve Fossett has touched down at Bournemouth Airport putting a successful end to the Ultimate Flight. Fossett, who broke the world record for the longest flight ever at 26.389.3 miles and a duration of 76 hours and 45 minutes. Fossett was supposed to land at Kent International Airport, but had to make an emergency landing when his generator failed. It was a rough landing, two tires burst and his windscreen was iced up but he is now on land and in need of a nap.

Tags: air, flight, global flyer, GlobalFlyer, richard branson, steve fossett, virgin, wings, world record

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Joaquin Lippincott Feb 16th 2006 11:50AM

My company (Metal Toad Media) created the map images for Blue Sky Network, which were used to track the Global Flyer's position. We recently took that information and created a time-lapse movie of the most recent Global Flyer flight:

http://www.metaltoad.com/global_flyer.html