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How to Fly Around the World With Carbon Fiber
The airplane took off these are round numbers 10,000 pounds 3.6 tons of aviation gas 3.6 The the carbon fiber structure weighed 926 pounds And a wingspan bigger than a boi in 737 and a cockpit half the size of one of the restrooms on 737. We had no money volunteers Bagged and borrowed quarter million dollars with a carbon fiber uh half a million dollars with avionics and radars back in those old days with no GPS and so a Mission control system and set that whole thing up. I'm honored to have met one of my heroes today. This is just an absolute remarkable day for me So I can't thank you enough for letting me be part of this