SAT写作素材分享Adventurer Fossett launches solo balloon trip
The giant high-altitude balloon, bathed in the deserts golden morning light, drifted slowly into the sky above Northam, a small mining town 100 km east of Perth, just after 7.00 a.m. .
Fossett had delayed inflating the aircraft for six and a half hours due to unfavourable winds, but with time running out before the arrival of the mornings hot thermals, he gave the order to fill the balloon with helium for a dawn launch.
Fossett waved to around 100 townsfolk as he entered the capsule for an eastward circumnavigation that he expects will take 15 days.
I am a bit nervous about the first night, Fossett said before take-off.
On the first night I will find out if everything works, if there are any leaks in the balloon, if there are any failures in communications and if the all-important heating works, he said.
The millionaire former stockbroker has made a series of failed attempts to fly solo in a balloon around the world.
The last attempt to inflate the giant balloon for a launch on June 17 from the Australian gold mining town of Kalgoorlie ended in disaster when a freak wind tore it apart.
Fossetts fourth solo bid ended in near disaster in 1998, when a thunderstorm off Australias northeastern coast shredded his canopy and sent him plummeting 29,000 feet into the Coral Sea. He was unhurt.
This year Fossett, 57, decided to launch in western Australia, some 600 km from the Indian Ocean, to have a better chance of avoiding thunderstorms in the South Pacific and gain time to detect problems while still over land.
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