Photos: Steve Fossett's flying adventure
At mission control for the flight, in Crawley, England, the GlobalFlyer team kept track of Fossett's flight status. The screen here shows the plane on Thursday passing over the Saudi Arabian peninsula. More details on the flight can be found on the GlobalFlyer site.
For the record: The aircraft is 44 feet long and has a wingspan of 114 feet. Empty, it weighs 3,350 pounds; filling up the 13 fuel tanks increases the weight dramatically, to approximately 22,000 pounds.
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