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Fri, Mar 14, 2003

Steve Fossett Plans to Go Gliding Today

...and, of Course, Setting Another World's Record

'Ya know, it's just not worth it, to go flying without setting a world's record.' At least, that's the way Steve Fossett (and Bruce Bohannon, and a few others) seems to think.

Today (Friday), Fossett, and longtime friend/copilot, contest gliding demigod Einar Enevoldson, are set to attempt to take Perlan, their modified Glaser-Dirks DG-505, past the established glider altitude record of 49,009 feet.

The attempt is set to take place over the Mojave Desert. If the record gets made, Fossett, Enevoldson and Perlan will try to go even higher this July -- perhaps to a theoretically-possible 62,000 feet.

FMI: www.ssa.org

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