{"id":294,"date":"2006-02-08T07:45:39","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T15:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2006-02-08T07:47:30","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T15:47:30","slug":"around-the-world-and-then-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/02\/08\/around-the-world-and-then-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the World &#8211; And Then Some!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, <strong>Global Flyer<\/strong> departed Florida for a trip around the world &#8211; plus. Once completing the circumnavigation, <strong>Steve Fossett<\/strong> will head across the pond for the second time, ultimately landing in the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>Man, I envy this guy for the adventure he will get, but not for the Iron-Man endurance of staying airborne for 80 hours. It only takes a four-hour flight before my butt goes to sleep &#8211; maybe less.<\/p>\n<p>This is from <strong>New Scientist<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientistspace.com\/article.ns?id=dn8694&#038;feedId=space_rss20\">GlobalFlyer takes off in pursuit of longest flight ever<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0602\/globalflyer.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><br \/>\nThe Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer aircraft took off at 0722 EST on Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US, on an attempt to shatter a series of aviation world records.<\/p>\n<p>The first launch attempt on Tuesday was scuppered by a leaking fuel tank, but everything went smoothly second time around for the dawn take-off. The leak was fixed, and the weather produced light headwinds and a temperature of 8\u00c2\u00b0C (46\u00c2\u00b0F). Above 12\u00c2\u00b0C (54\u00c2\u00b0F) and the air would not have been dense enough to support the fuel-laden jet&#8217;s take-off from the 3-mile-long runway.<\/p>\n<p>Before take-off, inspectors from the US National Aeronautics Association placed seals on the airplane&#8217;s hatch and fuel tank, to ensure that no landing or refuelling takes place during the expected 80-hour flight.<\/p>\n<p>The journey is expected to cover up to 46,000 kilometres (28,600 miles), which would be the longest aircraft flight ever. Pilot and veteran record-breaker Steve Fossett will make do with occasional 5-minute naps and get by on nothing but strawberry-flavoured nutritional drinks.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientistspace.com\/article.ns?id=dn8694&#038;feedId=space_rss20\">more<\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Global Flyer departed Florida for a trip around the world &#8211; plus. Once completing the circumnavigation, Steve Fossett will head across the pond for the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}