Login | Register Share:
  Guess quote | Authors | Isles | Contacts

Steve Fossett [1944-0] American
Rank: 107
Aviator, Businessman


James Stephen "Steve" Fossett 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. 

Sports



QuoteTagsRank
The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.
101
A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface.
102
Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the equipment.
103
This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.
104
I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats. Sports
105
I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.
106
I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.
107

The script ran 0.004 seconds.