“s ID Teams began searching the area after a hiker found ID belonging to Fossett on Monday. The hiker said he found a Federal Aviation Administration identity card, a pilot”
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Steve Fossett
James Stephen 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 and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo fl…
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business · American businessman, aviator, sailor, and adventurer (1944–2007) · explorer · financier · balloonist · aircraft pilot · racing automobile driver · businessperson · sailor · mountaineer · adventurer · stockbroker · also Steve Fossett, James Stephen Fossett, Fossett
Born 22 April 1944 · Died 3 September 2007 · Q311786
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2026· 4 entries
“As a floor trader, I was very aggressive and worked hard. Those same traits help me in adventure sports.”
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“For the first five years of my business career, I was distracted by being in computer systems, and then I became interested in financial markets. That”
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The New York Times: Steve Fossett
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2015· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: The Mystery Behind Pilot Steve Fossett's Deadly Crash
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2010· 1 entry
Fossett was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum
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2009· 1 entry
The NTSB declared the probable cause of the crash as "the pilot's inadvertent encounter with downdrafts that exceeded the climb capability of the airplane
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2008· 5 entries
CNET: Steve Fossett's plane possibly found, authorities say
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A hiker found three crumpled identification cards on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada range in California, about 65 miles (100 km) south (186 degrees) of Fossett's take-off site
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Almost a year after Fossett disappeared, twenty-eight friends and admirers conducted a foot search based on new information and computer modeling
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Otago Daily Times: Is Steve Fossett still alive?
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The Las Vegas Review-Journal attributed to Nevada State Governor Jim Gibbons' spokesman, Ben Kieckhefer, the Governor's decision to direct the state to charge Steve Fossett's family for the $687,000 expense of the search
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2007· 7 entries
CAP announced it had called off its search operation
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Authorities confirmed they would stop actively looking for Fossett in the Nevada Desert, but would keep air crews on standby to fly to possible crash sites
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While flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California
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Died 2007-09-03.
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Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (2007).
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Fossett held the world record for crossing the Pacific Ocean in his 125-foot (38 m) sailboat, the PlayStation, which he accomplished on his fourth try
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Fossett succeeded Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as president of the National Eagle Scout Association
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2006· 8 entries
Set the world altitude record for gliders over El Calafate, Argentina at 15,460 metres (50,720 ft)
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And returned on March 17, 2006 after flying 25,262 statute miles (40,655 km)
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Fossett set the absolute world record for "distance without landing" by flying from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, around the world eastbound, then upon returning to Florida continuing across the Atlantic a second ti
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SpaceNews: Steve Fossett and the GlobalFlyer Depart From NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Runway
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Fossett purchased the Formula Shell LSRV Spirit of America from former land speed record holder Craig Breedlove
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That Scouting was the most important activity of his youth
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Again circumnavigated the globe nonstop and unrefueled in 76 hours, 45 minutes in the GlobalFlyer, setting the record for the longest flight by any aircraft in history with a distance of 25,766 statute miles (41,467 k
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Fossett was one of only 17 pilots in the world licensed to fly the Zeppelin
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2005· 5 entries
Aviation Week: Richard Branson and Steve Fossett
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Fossett and co-pilot Mark Rebholz recreated 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
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Aviation Week: STEVE FOSSETT RELIED ON A CHELTON
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“t ballooning, he was setting other kinds of records - in boats, gliders and jets. In 2005, Fossett flew a small airplane called the Virgin GlobalFlyer around the world. He did it alone, without refueling or stopping. Landing in Kansas to a cheering crowd, he said he was a”
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Fossett made the first solo, nonstop unrefueled circumnavigation of the world in an airplane, in 67 hours in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, a single-engine jet aircraft
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2003· 1 entry
Fossett and co-pilot Doug Travis 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
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2002· 5 entries
And returned to Australia on July 3, 2002, subsequently landing in Queensland
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Fossett received aviation's highest award, the Gold Medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) and in July 2007, he was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Became the first person to fly around the world alone, nonstop in any kind of aircraft
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Was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Aero Club of the UK, and was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2007
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Becoming the first person to complete an uninterrupted and unrefueled solo circumnavigation of the world in any kind of aircraft)
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1999· 1 entry
Received the Silver Buffalo Award, BSA's highest recognition of service to youth
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1998· 1 entry
One of the unsuccessful attempts at the ballooning record ended with a five-mile (8 km) plummet into the Coral Sea off the coast of Australia that nearly killed Fossett; he waited 72 hours to be rescued, at a cost of $50
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1997· 2 entries
The trading volume of its rented memberships was larger than any other clearing firm on the Chicago exchange
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Fossett was inducted into the Balloon and Airship Hall of Fame
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1996· 1 entry
In 15:53:10), the Boston Marathon, and the Leadville Trail 100, a 100-mile (160 km) Colorado ultramarathon which involves running up to elevations of more than 12,600 feet (3,800 m) in the Rocky Mountains
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1995· 1 entry
Fossett landed in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, after taking off from South Korea, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon
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1985· 1 entry
“to make the varsity swim team”
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1980· 2 entries
Became the eighth skier to complete all 10 of the long distance races, earning a Worldloppet medallion
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Fossett began the process that eventually produced his enduring prosperity: renting exchange memberships to would-be floor traders, first on the Chicago Board Options Exchange
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1976· 1 entry
For Drexel Burnham, which assigned him one of its memberships on the Chicago Board of Trade and permitted him to market the services of the firm from a phone on the floor of that exchange
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1973· 1 entry
Where he proved a highly successful producer of commission revenue for himself and that firm
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1968· 2 entries
Fossett received an MBA from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St
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Fossett married Peggy Fossett (née Viehland), who was originally from Richmond Heights, Missouri
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1966· 1 entry
Fossett graduated from Stanford with a degree in economics
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-04-22.
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1930· 1 entry
“If he had been doing this in the 1930”
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