Around the world in a few days

[Leslie]

Adventurer Steve Fossett has become the first person to make a nonstop, solo flight around the world without refuelling, landing in Kansas after nearly three days in the air.

His single-engine jet-powered experimental plane touched down at the Salina Municipal Airport at 2:48 p.m. EST (7.48 p.m. British time Thursday) in a smooth landing about 67 hours after he left the same strip on Monday night.

"I'm a really lucky guy now, I got to achieve my ambition," the 60-year-old millionaire said after stepping out of the cramped capsule in which he had spent nearly three days.

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Cool.

 

[Gonz]

The Smithsonian wants the plane for display.

Mr Fossett says it's still being used. He likes flying it.

 

[Leslie]

While Fossett is the first to make the flight alone, it will not enter the record books since the Paris-based Federation Aeronautique Internationale has said it does not have a separate category for solo pilots.

Fossett's team however had said they hoped to qualify for distance and speed records, which remain to be certified.

that sucks.

 

[Winky]

Damn French! lol

 

[Lopan]

Sod the frogs. Who asked them anyway.