Would Legomancer’s be Phileas (sp?) Fogg?
I’m afraid the Chuck Yeager reply nearly exhausts my less than substantial fund of knowledge of aviation history so I’ll leave it to others to get Floater’s.
Yep. Didn’t know how to do it without either making it too vague or just plain giving it away.
The obligatory Monty Python reference: http://www.34dartdrive.freeserve.co.uk/books/around80.htm
This thread seems to have died of natural causes, but just in case anybody still wondered, the LAST of my entries (#2) was “Hands Across America,” which went from Battery Park in New York to Long Beach, in California.
Not a real “journey,” but it counted for something.
Cape Canaveral to Ares Vallis
Ah, the nineteenth-century equivalent of a dot.com… really famous, hired adolescents to do the work, flamed out eighteen months later due to superior technology.
The Pony Express