Last year when Fossett made a similar round-the-world attempt, Libya gave Fossett permission at the last minute, after Fossett had already descended and shifted his course.
Fossett faces a grave risk of dehydration, even if he survived a crash in the Nevada desert.
Fossett will use a bigger balloon this time, and control its altitude by working a propane ethane burner.
It was a Bellanca Super Decathlon two-seater with a single engine, one of several sitting round the ranch that day, in which Mr Fossett might leave as casually as a boy might take a bike ride to the grocery store.
Mr Gray was as big a celebrity among computer geeks as Mr Fossett is among thrill-seekers, and the story played out in the same way.
As we were being sound-checked, I made a quip about the missing millionaire pilot Steve Fossett.
The 63-year-old Fossett disappeared September 3rd after taking off in a single-engine plane from a Nevada airstrip.
Jump Trading , a firm founded in 1999 by two former pit traders (one of whom got his start trading for thrill-seeker Steve Fossett), has 50 traders buying and selling a variety of contracts by computer.
Peggy Fossett says she believes her millionaire-adventurer husband was killed in a plane crash in September.
For the Fossett hunt, volunteers comb through the images and flag any that include what might be a plane or its wreckage.
Libya has been a pariah to most of the international community, but Le Vine said he hoped it would see the value in Fossett's flight.
The two achieved a feat attempted unsuccessfully in recent years by many others, including British tycoon Richard Branson and the American adventurer Steve Fossett.
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