Steve Fossett Found

Fossett was aiming for land speed record

Adventurer Steve Fossett has had a lifetime of daring achievements, most of them at high altitude. His latest record-setting dream brought him back to terra firma.

Fossett’s small plane disappeared Monday as he was scouting dry lake beds in western Nevada, apparently searching for an optimum spot to set a world land speed record.
The region of rugged peaks and wide, smooth valleys in western Nevada apparently was not his first choice, however. Fossett already had sought approval from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to use a 15-mile-long playa in remote east-central Nevada, said Chris Worthington, a bureau spokesman in Battle Mountain.
Fossett’s Marathon Racing Inc. had applied for a special recreation permit earlier this year in anticipation of making a run in Eureka County, about 225 miles east of Reno and 200 miles from where crews are searching for Fossett’s plane.
Just last week, the bureau announced it had completed an environmental assessment of Fossett’s plan and would seek public comment this month.
Civil Air Patrol Maj. Cynthia S. Ryan said authorities were told Fossett took off on Monday to scout sites he could use for testing. That puzzled Worthington.
“That was news to me because he already found this lake bed some time ago, unless he was looking for a backup later on,” he said.
Fossett had considered taking low-speed test runs of a turbojet-powered racer at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats in anticipation of his attempt to set a land speed record. Instead, he decided to go for the record on the Diamond Valley Playa northeast of Eureka, which is relatively pristine, Worthington said.
Briton Andy Green set the record of 766.6 mph in October 1997 in the Black Rock Desert 90 miles north of Reno, the same place more than 48,000 people gathered last week for the Burning Man counterculture festival.
Fossett hoped his Sonic Arrow vehicle would be capable of exceeding 800 mph.
Worthington said he spoke with Fossett as recently as last week. He said the adventurer thought Utah’s salt flats were too soft and the Black Rock Desert too rutted from use, so he chose the Eureka County site.
Fossett suggested he would not attempt to break the record this year, but rather spend time removing rocks from the dry lake bed and improving an access road, Worthington said.
“I was talking to him only last week, and everything was going great,” he said.

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New Search for Fossett Set to Begin in Nevada Video Tags: Peggy Fossett Tags: Peggy Fossett This entry was posted on July 30, 2008 at 11:48 am and is filed under Celebrity Biographies. At age 13, Fossett earned the Boy Scouts’ highest rank of Eagle Scout and was a Vigil Honor member of the Order of the Arrow, the Boy Scouts’ honor society, where he served as lodge chief. S military is bringing forth allegations which suggest that Steve may have faked his own death. Delore and Fossett are among the world’s top glider pilots gathered for the Argentine summer season which runs through January – and have laid down an impressive new benchmark. Fossetts disappearance, and there are a number of possible scenarios that have been discussed, including heart attack or stroke, localized winds and turbulence, flying into the ground while examining a possible area to make his land speed run.

One morning more than a month after the last photographs had been taken, Peggy sent Mark Marshall, Steve Fossetts staff pilot, to Fireballs offices to get a progress report. Fossett previously had served on the World Scout Committee. Their time was 3 hours, 51 minutes, 52 seconds, an average speed of 546.44mph (879.46km/h), which broke the previous turboprop transcontinental record held by Chuck Yeager and Renald Davenport. On November 26, 2007, Peggy Fossett, Steve’s wife of 38 years, petitioned the Cook County Court in Illinois to have her husband declared dead. In 2005, Fossett became the first person to fly a. Fossett later sold most of his business interests, although he maintained an office in Chicago until 2006. Personal life Fossett was married to Peggy Fossett (Viehland), originally from Richmond Heights, Missouri, in 1968. They had no children.

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