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Intro music.

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Virgin Atlantic's GlobalFlyer gracefully took off from

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NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a bold mission to fly into the record books.

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Piloted by adventurer Steve Fossett, GlobalFlyer is attempting to set a

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world record for the longest nonstop flight of any aircraft in aviation history.

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Fossett plans to fly the aircraft once around the globe before continuing on to Kent International 
Airport in England.

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Should the attempt prove successful, Globalflyer will have flown more than

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26,000 miles and bested the previous world mark by hundreds of miles.

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Kennedy Space Center was chosen as the point of GlobalFlyer's departure because of the

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center's world class facilities and unusually long space shuttle runway.

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Spanning 15,000 feet, the lengthy runway provided enough room for the heavily fueled GlobalFlyer 
to take flight.

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The single-engine GlobalFlyer is a one-of-a-kind aircraft made of

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ultra-lightweight composite materials and equipped with 17 fuel tanks.

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If all goes well, GlobalFlyer will safely land in England 80 hours after liftoff, light on fuel
but holding a hefty record.

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