Steve Fossett

Steve Fossett

Steve Fossett is an aviator best known for his solo circumnavigations. On March 3, 2005 he completed the First Solo Nonstop Round the World Airplane Flight in a time of 67 hours 1 minute 10 seconds in the single engine jet airplane the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer. Mr. Fossett continued in 2006 to break 2 more of the Absolute Records of Airplanes. In February he set the Distance without Landing record at 25,766 miles by flying from Kennedy Space Center, around the world, then landing at Bournemouth England. The final record flight of the Global Flyer was the Closed Circuit Distance record of 25,293 miles in March, 2006.

In 2002, Mr. Fossett completed the First Solo Balloon Flight Round the World on his sixth attempt. During his 7 year campaign for the First Solo, he made the first balloon crossing of the continents of Asia, Africa, Europe and South America and the first ocean crossings of the South Atlantic, South Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

In gliders, he has set (with co-pilot Terry Delore) 10 of the 21 Open Class records. As a team they have made the longest Straight Distance flight (2,192.9 km), the longest Triangle (1,509.7 km) and the longest Out and Return (2,002.4 km).

In 2004 he set the Absolute Airship Speed record for airships in the Zeppelin with a speed of 115.0 km/h. In his Citation X he has set numerous airplane records including U.S. Transcontinental for non-supersonic airplanes in 2 hours 56 minutes at 726.83 mph and the Australia Transcontinental Record at 705 mph.

He was awarded the Gold Air Medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale for 2002 for his accomplishments in aviation.

Outside of aviation he has set 23 official world sailing records including the Round the World in 58 days 9 hours and the Transatlantic at 4 days 17 hours.

In total Fossett has set a total of 115 official world records in 5 sports.

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