Our intrepid billionaire ready for another go...from Inyokern this spring

[Stewart Kissel]

http://www.firnspiegel.com/perlan/

IIRC, he is going to try his solo, non-stop, no-refuel
flight around the world this month, departing from
Kansas?

[5Z]

The global Flyer is in Salina Kansas:

http://www.sal.ksu.edu/globalflyer/index.html

-Tom

Stewart Kissel wrote:
> http://www.firnspiegel.com/perlan/
>
> IIRC, he is going to try his solo, non-stop, no-refuel
> flight around the world this month, departing from
> Kansas?

[5Z]

The global Flyer is in Salina Kansas:

http://www.sal.ksu.edu/globalflyer/index.html

-Tom

Stewart Kissel wrote:
> http://www.firnspiegel.com/perlan/
>
> IIRC, he is going to try his solo, non-stop, no-refuel
> flight around the world this month, departing from
> Kansas?

[Stewart Kissel]

http://www.virginatlanticglobalflyer.com/

12,300' runway...and it sounds like they will need
every inch of it.

I would like to meet their local congressman....how
the heck did they get a runway that big out there?
:)

[[email protected]]

O'K...don't want to sound realy stupid but....I thought that the
Voyager captured the around globe flight with Dick Rutan and Jeanna
Yeager....what is Global Flyer going to accomplish here, can anybody
explain?

[Wayne Paul]

It use to be a SAC base. See:
http://www.salair.org/index.php?page=history.htm

12K runways are the common length for SAC bases.

Wayne


"Stewart Kissel" > wrote in
message ...
> http://www.virginatlanticglobalflyer.com/
>
> 12,300' runway...and it sounds like they will need
> every inch of it.
>
> I would like to meet their local congressman....how
> the heck did they get a runway that big out there?
> :)
>
>
>

[F.L. Whiteley]

> wrote in message
oups.com...
> O'K...don't want to sound realy stupid but....I thought that the
> Voyager captured the around globe flight with Dick Rutan and Jeanna
> Yeager....what is Global Flyer going to accomplish here, can anybody
> explain?
>
solo flight