The aircraft barreling down the Kennedy Space Center runway Thursday did not come from space, but it was as unique as any NASA space shuttle. With a wingspan as wide as an 11-story building, and a ...

•ROUND TRIP The nonstop, nonrefueling solo flight around the world is the last great milestone in the history of aviation. Or it was. On March 1 the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, designed by Burt Rutan ...

Fossett landed his lightweight experimental aircraft, called the GlobalFlyer, at Salina Municipal Airport a few hours ahead of schedule, at 9:06 a.m. CST, more than 74 hours after he took off from the ...

Attempt to set unrefuelled single pilot world circumnavigation record will follow airways using GPS navigation Steve Fosset's unrefuelled single-pilot world circumnavigation record attempt in the ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Aviation's adventuresome duo of Chicago millionaire Steve Fossett and Sir Richard Branson announced plans Thursday for another world record attempt in the Virgin Atlantic ...