Steve Fossett completes round world flight...by himself,without stopping for gas!

sablescort · 03-03-2005, 11:42 PM

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05063/466135.stm

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Steve Fossett completed the world's first solo airplane flight around the world without refueling yesterday after shrugging off an apparently dangerous fuel shortage, crossing the Pacific Ocean and landing in Kansas and into aviation history.

That guy does really have major iron balls to pull off flying alone round world without stopping for gas!

Charles "Lucky Lindy" Lindbergh is really smiling at Fossett from the heavens!

Tousi · 03-03-2005, 11:47 PM

Yeah, Sablescort, I watched the landing on TV this am! Really cool featt! Imagine not sleeping for a whole week!

PurrMeow · 03-03-2005, 11:54 PM

Yeah I heard about it. GEEZ image how he can handles to drive without sleepy. Remind me of when I flew about 20 hours from USA to M'sian inlcude airline changing and when I was on airline I tried to stay up but couldn't. I fell asleep when the airline lift up and flew out of LA to Tawain to change then flew to M'sian. Arghh I slept straight on the way to Tawain to change from LA.. Image I didn't even wake up while it flew especially I had to walk clumsy to the restroom..

PurrMeow

ravensteve1961 · 03-04-2005, 12:29 AM

Hey If i drive off from a gas station i see these guys next.

***VamPyroX*** · 03-04-2005, 09:08 AM

Wow, that's amazing. Soon, they'll be developing faster planes so they can go around the world in less time!

Codger · 03-04-2005, 10:58 AM

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's X-43A research vehicle screamed into the record books today, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. Preliminary data from the scramjet-powered research vehicle show its revolutionary engine worked successfully at approximately Mach 10, nearly 7000 mph, as it flew at an altitude of approximately 110,000 feet.

It could conceivably hit Mach 15. That is 10,500 mph.

NASA's X-43A Scramjet Breaks Speed Record
http://sev.prnewswire.com/aerospace-...6112004-1.html

Tousi · 03-04-2005, 11:13 AM

Wow, this jet would cover Fossett's trip in a bit over 2 hrs vs a week!

Codger · 03-04-2005, 12:06 PM

They are called "piddle packs". Military pilots use them. Males do anyway. Female pilots have to be more creative. Some use catheters.

Codger · 03-05-2005, 06:36 PM

Most modern civilian and military planes have autopilots and while fighter planes do not have the cocpit space to allow the pilot to "do his/her business", cargo planes and long range military planes do, and civilian planes do. I would suppose that he used something similar to a large zip-loc bag, afterall, that is what the piddlepack is, though some have the absorbant gel in them like disposable diapers. At any rate, "something" has been worked out for all the space flights, so I would imagine he used something similar.

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03-03-2005, 11:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
Tousi Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 7,538	Yeah, Sablescort, I watched the landing on TV this am! Really cool featt! Imagine not sleeping for a whole week!

03-03-2005, 11:54 PM	#3 (permalink)
PurrMeow Have fun~ Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Rose Posts: 2,395	Yeah I heard about it. GEEZ image how he can handles to drive without sleepy. Remind me of when I flew about 20 hours from USA to M'sian inlcude airline changing and when I was on airline I tried to stay up but couldn't. I fell asleep when the airline lift up and flew out of LA to Tawain to change then flew to M'sian. Arghh I slept straight on the way to Tawain to change from LA.. Image I didn't even wake up while it flew especially I had to walk clumsy to the restroom.. PurrMeow

03-04-2005, 12:29 AM	#4 (permalink)
ravensteve1961 Banned Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Here Posts: 3,940	Hey If i drive off from a gas station i see these guys next.

03-04-2005, 10:58 AM	#6 (permalink)
Codger This body is on loan Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 817	WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's X-43A research vehicle screamed into the record books today, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. Preliminary data from the scramjet-powered research vehicle show its revolutionary engine worked successfully at approximately Mach 10, nearly 7000 mph, as it flew at an altitude of approximately 110,000 feet. It could conceivably hit Mach 15. That is 10,500 mph. NASA's X-43A Scramjet Breaks Speed Record http://sev.prnewswire.com/aerospace-...6112004-1.html

03-04-2005, 11:13 AM	#7 (permalink)
Tousi Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 7,538	Wow, this jet would cover Fossett's trip in a bit over 2 hrs vs a week!

03-04-2005, 12:06 PM	#8 (permalink)
Codger This body is on loan Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 817	They are called "piddle packs". Military pilots use them. Males do anyway. Female pilots have to be more creative. Some use catheters.

03-05-2005, 06:36 PM	#9 (permalink)
Codger This body is on loan Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 817	Most modern civilian and military planes have autopilots and while fighter planes do not have the cocpit space to allow the pilot to "do his/her business", cargo planes and long range military planes do, and civilian planes do. I would suppose that he used something similar to a large zip-loc bag, afterall, that is what the piddlepack is, though some have the absorbant gel in them like disposable diapers. At any rate, "something" has been worked out for all the space flights, so I would imagine he used something similar.