Print
This List
Email to
a Friend
Steve Fossett's Records
BESTS 
Tags: Steve, Fossett, records, speed, land, air, list
Here is a list of adventurer Steve Fossett's land and air records:
| | Transcontinental aircraft records - Fossett set two U.S. transcontinental airplane records in the same day. On February 5, 2003, he flew his Cessna Citation X jet from San Diego, California to Charleston, South Carolina in 2 hours, 56 minutes, 20 seconds, at an average speed of 726.83 mph (1169.73 km/h) to smash the transcontinental record for non-supersonic jets.
He returned to San Diego, then flew the same course as co-pilot for fellow adventurer Joe Ritchie in Ritchie's turboprop Piaggio Avanti. Their time was 3 hours, 51 minutes, 52 seconds, an average speed of 546.44 mph (879.46 km/h), which broke the previous turboprop transcontinental record held by Chuck Yeager and Renald Davenport.
Fossett also set the east-to-west transcontinental record for non-supersonic fixed-wing aircraft on 17 September 2000. He flew from Jacksonville, Florida to San Diego, California in 3 hours 29 minutes, at an average speed of 591.96 mph (952.67 km/h).
|
| | First trans-Atlantic flight re-creation - On 2 July 2005, Fossett and co-pilot Mark Rebholz re-created the first nonstop crossing of the Atlantic which was made by the British team of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown in June 1919 in a Vickers Vimy biplane. Their flight from St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada to Clifden, Ireland in the open cockpit Vickers Vimy replica took 18 hours 25 minutes with 13 hours flown in instrument flight conditions. Since there was no airport in Clifden, Fossett and Rebholz landed on the 8th fairway of the Connemarra Golf Course.
|
| | Glider speed and distance records - The team of Steve Fossett and Terry Delore (NZL) have set ten official world records in gliders while flying in three major locations: New Zealand, Argentina and Nevada, USA. An asterisk (*) indicates records subsequently broken by other pilots.
|
| | Glider altitude record -Fossett and co-pilot Einar Enevoldson flew a glider into the stratosphere on August 29, 2006. The flight set the Absolute Altitude Record for gliders at 50,727 feet (15,460 m). Since the glider cockpit was unpressurized, the pilots wore full pressure suits (similar to space suits) so that they would be able to fly to altitudes above 45,000 feet. Fossett and Enevoldson had made previous attempts in three countries over a period of five years before finally succeeding with this record flight. This endeavor was known as the Perlan Project. |
Lister:
ListAfterList Wiki Contributors
Source:
Wikipedia – All text in this list shared under the GNU License
Other lists of interest:
This list not rated yet – be the first to rate it