Fossett's flight

[ilya]

Impressive? Meh? Waste of resources?

CNN has dubbed him a "modern-day Magellan"...I think that's going WAY too far.

[2planka]

I'm impressed. Then again, I'm a nerd.

It would be nice to have buckets of money to do things like set around-the-world-solo-without-refeuling-or-landing records.

[jakethebake]

link?

[ilya]

Secret news webpage (http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/03/03/globalflyer.fossett/index.html)

[CORed]

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The red-and-white plane, its long fuselage emblazoned with the Virgin Atlantic motif, cruised at speeds of more than 200 mph for most of the flight at an altitude of about 45,000 miles (13,716 meters).

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I want to play poker with a table full of journalists. Their mat skills never ceease to amaze me.

[cokehead]

I don't understand how this has been the top news story on cnn.com for the past 48 hours or so. Doesn't seem that news worthy to me.