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當地時間3月3日下午1:48分，美國冒險家史蒂夫·福塞特駕駛“環球飛行者”號返回美國堪薩斯州薩利納，以67小時飛行2.3萬英里（3.7萬公里）的成績，獨自一人駕駛飛機完成環球航行，其間沒有降落也沒有重新加油，從而成為全球實現單人不間斷環球航行的第一人。外電報道如下：First by balloon, now by plane, Steve Fossett is once again a 'round-the-world record holder.
The millionaire adventurer on Thursday became the first person to fly around the world alone without stopping or refueling, touching down in central Kansas after a 67-hour, 23,000-mile journey that appeared endangered at times by a troubled fuel system.
Fossett, who failed five times before successfully circumnavigating the globe solo in a balloon, needed just one try to make the trip in a plane. He holds many other records as a balloonist, pilot and sailor.
Fossett's GlobalFlyer, designed by the same engineer who came up with the Voyager aircraft that first completed the trip in 1986 with two pilots aboard, touched down on the center line at the Salina airport at 1:50 p.m. Thursday.
Circumnavigate表示“環航”，如circumnavigating the earth（環航地球）。此外還有“繞行；避開”之義，例如：circumnavigate the downtown traffic（繞行避開鬧市區交通）。
據悉，現年60歲的福塞特是一位以冒險聞名于世的百萬富翁，他曾單獨打破了62項熱氣球、飛機、滑翔機和帆船航行紀錄。2002年，他創造了單人乘坐熱氣球環球航行的世界記錄。他還游過英吉利海峽。
（中國日報網站編）
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