Global Flyer has Landed @ 2:49 ET
03-03-2005, 02:50 PM
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Global Flyer has Landed @ 2:49 ET
While this is not RC Related, the Global Flyer piloted by Steve Fossett, finished its record setting flight to be the first solo jet powered aircraft to be piloted around the world without refueling. On Wednesday, Fossett broke the record for the longest nonstop, unrefueled flight by a jet. A B-52 bomber set that record of 12,532 miles in 1962. The first nonstop global flight without refueling was made in 1986 by Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan, in the propeller-driven Voyager airplane. Dick Rutan's brother, Burt Rutan, is the designer of the GlobalFlyer and the Voyager as well as SpaceShipOne, which last year became the first privately developed craft to soar into outer space.
03-03-2005, 03:23 PM
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RE: Global Flyer has Landed @ 2:49 ET
Wow!! Guess they were able to get the fuel issue straightened out....
Impressive....
So...whos going for the first circumnavigation with an RC plane?
Impressive....
So...whos going for the first circumnavigation with an RC plane?
03-03-2005, 06:05 PM
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RE: Global Flyer has Landed @ 2:49 ET
Simply Outstanding!!! Another Burt Rutan’s design in the record books. Great job also on the pilot, Steve Fossett, for flying it without sleep.
03-03-2005, 06:33 PM
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ORIGINAL: exeter_acres
So...whos going for the first circumnavigation with an RC plane?
So...whos going for the first circumnavigation with an RC plane?
You gotta love Rutans work! He has yet to miss. Sure glad I get to build one of his bird! The EZ rocks!
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RE: Global Flyer has Landed @ 2:49 ET
That is exactly what I was thinking.
Would make a great glider.
It could glide for 200 miles which would be about an hour at it's cruise speed.
SO when will these designs come out?
Would make a great glider.
It could glide for 200 miles which would be about an hour at it's cruise speed.
SO when will these designs come out?
ORIGINAL: Joe Ortiz
Awesome!![X(], the plane looka like a good candidate for an electric ducted fan model
Awesome!![X(], the plane looka like a good candidate for an electric ducted fan model
02-11-2006, 03:54 PM
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RE: Global Flyer has Landed @ 2:49 ET
You gotta love Rutans work! He has yet to miss.
designs are just so against the grain and strikingly gorgeous i.e. EZ, Boomerang and the Pond Racer.
Congratulations to Steve Fosset on a record well broken and of course my hat's off again
to the pioneering vision of Scaled Composites and their whole engineering team,
they never cease to amaze!
