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James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft.
Oct 2, 2008 · The wreckage was discovered about 120 miles south of the Nevada ranch that Steve Fossett, the millionaire adventurer, departed over a year ago.
Jun 3, 2024 · Steve Fossett was an American businessman and adventurer who set a number of world records, most notably in aviation and sailing. In 2002, he became the first balloonist to circumnavigate the world alone, and in 2005 he completed the first nonstop solo global flight in an airplane. Fossett grew up.
May 14, 2018 · Billionaire Steve Fossett loved pushing the limits of human achievement, and it was this very quest that led to his death in 2007 in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Fossett’s fortune came from trading futures and options in Chicago.
On February 28, 2005, temperatures hovered just above freezing on a late afternoon in Salina, Kansas. I stood on the tarmac as the world-record-breaking adventurer Steve Fossett prepared to...
May 9, 2014 · Steve Fossett was an American entrepreneur and traveler born on April 22, 1944, in Jackson, Tennessee. Fossett is a record holder for the very first solo air travel throughout the Pacific Ocean in a hot-air balloon (1995), very first solo journey around the world in a hot-air balloon (2002), fastest travel around the world in a sailboat (2004 ...
Mar 1, 2008 · In February 15, pilot-adventurer Steve Fossett was declared legally dead by a Chicago judge five months after he disappeared in his single-engine Bellanca Citabria Super Decathlon.
Feb 16, 2008 · Steve Fossett, the wealthy, record-setting adventurer who for years blithely sailed, soared and drove through all manner of danger before disappearing in September during what was meant to be a...
Steve Fossett. On March 3, 2005, after 67 hours aboard his Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, he became the first person to fly alone around the world nonstop
Jul 10, 2009 · The acclaimed aviator Steve Fossett died in 2007 when his small plane flew into a mountain downdraft and crashed, a federal report said.
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