Steve Fossett marks another record! After a travel during 76 hours 45 minutes, a multimillionaire brakes the world record of 40,813 kilometers by Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard in 1999, with his flight of 43,450 kilometers. He was forced to make an emergency landing at Bournemouth International Airport due to generator’s breakdown.
It is not the first time when Fossett tries to brake a record. He also holds five other records in sports. It looks for me like the guy has nothing better do do but achieving his goals and making his marks in history. Why he is doing things like this? “I mainly do these things for my personal satisfaction. I thoroughly enjoy what I’m doing so I don’t plan on stopping. I’ll always find various things to do.” Of that I’m sure.
It’s obvious that extreme challenges like this one require exceptional skill and endurance, as www.virginatlanticglobalflyer.com editor remarks. Now, I think there’s one more exceptional thing needed to achieve this sort of dreams. Money. It’s more than certain that there are many more people with more or less expensive goals unable to make them come true because of their price. The question I got on my mind is: is it better for one little man to achieve a huge goal of his own, or maybe I’d like to see thousands of smaller dreams becoming true?
Nevertheless… Congratulations, Steve!
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