U.S. Adventurer Sets Off on Solo Global Flight (Reuters)

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Reuters - Steve Fossett, who sailed around
the globe in a balloon three years ago, took off from a Kansas
airfield on Monday trying to circle the Earth nonstop in a
one-engine plane without refueling.

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