As we were being sound-checked, I made a quip about the missing millionaire pilot Steve Fossett.
Peggy Fossett says she believes her millionaire-adventurer husband was killed in a plane crash in September.
Fossett faces a grave risk of dehydration, even if he survived a crash in the Nevada desert.
The 63-year-old Fossett disappeared September 3rd after taking off in a single-engine plane from a Nevada airstrip.
Fossett will use a bigger balloon this time, and control its altitude by working a propane ethane burner.
The Citabria that Fossett hopped into on Monday was not owned by Fossett.
Fossett was an exceptionally well-trained and careful pilot for his record-breaking missions.
But Tim Cole, another member of Fossett's team, said Friday that Libya's belated approval was not the reason the last attempt failed.
For the Fossett hunt, volunteers comb through the images and flag any that include what might be a plane or its wreckage.
Fossett made an attempt at the record earlier but his balloon landed in an India mustard field after six days in the air.
Mr Fossett has been the subject of one of the most intensive civilian manhunts in history and also, fittingly, one of the most technological.
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.
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.
Except that Mr Fossett very rarely did things just for pleasure.
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.
So when Fossett hopped into the Citabria on Monday evening, one might fairly ask: Was Fossett really prepared to fly this (somewhat demanding) airplane on this (windy and therefore demanding) day?
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.
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.
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