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  2. Steve Fossett - Wikipedia

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    James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – September 3, 2007) 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 and in a fixed-wing aircraft.

  3. Round-the-world ticket - Wikipedia

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    Round-the-world tickets are priced according to travel class, origin of travel, number of continents, mileage (usually between 30,000 and 60,000 km), and sometimes season of travel. [3] The traveller benefits from the large and optimized network of the airline alliance and can often participate in the alliance's frequent flyer programs ...

  4. Bertrand Piccard - Wikipedia

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    Bertrand Piccard FRSGS (born 1 March 1958) is a Swiss explorer, psychiatrist and environmentalist. [1] Along with Brian Jones, he was the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe, in a balloon named Breitling Orbiter 3.

  5. Circumnavigation world record progression - Wikipedia

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    Concorde FAI "Westbound Around the World" world air speed record from Lisbon, Portugal. [27] [28] [29] Michel Dupont and Claude Hetru 31 hours 27 minutes and 49 seconds 15 August 1995 16 August 1995 Concorde with 98 passengers and crew, no equatorial crossing.

  6. Sunday Times Golden Globe Race - Wikipedia

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    No follow-up race was held for some time. However, in 1982 the BOC Challenge race was organised; this single-handed round-the-world race with stops was inspired by the Golden Globe and has been held every four years since. In 1989, Philippe Jeantot founded the Vendée Globe race, a non-stop, single-handed, round-the-world race. Essentially the ...

  7. Passengers on a round-the-world cruise now stuck at ... - AOL

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    Villa Vie Residences' Odyssey cruise ship was set to embark on a round-the-world voyage in May.. But the vessel has been undergoing repair work at a shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Villa ...

  8. Norman Surplus - Wikipedia

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    Surplus and his autogyro during his circumnavigation attempt at Kadena Air Base in 2011. Norman Surplus (7 February 1963 – 19 April 2022) [1] [2] [3] was a pilot from Northern Ireland who circumnavigated the globe in an autogyro, [4] nicknamed "Roxy". [5]

  9. Karl Bushby - Wikipedia

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    The Goliath Expedition is Bushby's attempt to walk around the world "with unbroken footsteps", from Punta Arenas, Chile, to his home in Hull, England. He began his journey on 1 November 1998 and originally expected to finish the over-36,000 miles (58,000 km) trek in eight years, though numerous delays meant it has not yet been completed.