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Whiskey 7
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by Whiskey 7 Wed Jul 13, 2016 5:21 am
Anyone else following this record attempt by balloonist and Russian Fedor Konyukohv?
PERTH, AUSTRALIA—A Russian balloonist launched his helium balloon from an Australian Outback town on Tuesday in a bid to set a record for flying around the world non-stop.
He's not appearing on the regular flightradar24 site at this time -
https://www.flightradar24.com/RA2900G/a4f0884
His call-sign/designation is RA29000G as far as I know
Try this link
https://my.yb.tl/RRTW2016/map-only/ via satellite apparently
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losCHUNK
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by losCHUNK Wed Jul 13, 2016 5:25 am
With or without a balloon, this man will make it
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by losCHUNK Wed Jul 13, 2016 5:38 pm
Day 1 and he's made it to south Australia
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Whiskey 7
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by Whiskey 7 Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:41 pm
Whiskey 7 wrote: His call-sign/designation is RA29000G as far as I know
Correction : The designation is
RA2900G
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by losCHUNK Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:50 pm
He's gonna need to start pegging it if he wants to make 12 days.
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by Whiskey 7 Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:36 pm
losCHUNK wrote: He's gonna need to start pegging it if he wants to make 12 days.
Agreed but I am of the thinking he'd be going faster over water(?) so we will wait and sea (pun intended)
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by Whiskey 7 Thu Jul 14, 2016 1:44 am
Memphis wrote: Whiskey 7 wrote: Ballooist
I see now & fixed
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by losCHUNK Thu Jul 14, 2016 3:16 am
He's in South Wales !
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by Whiskey 7 Thu Jul 14, 2016 4:15 am
He might get close to Sydney yet.
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by Whiskey 7 Sun Jul 17, 2016 6:46 am
I was wondering where he is...
from his site -
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by losCHUNK Sun Jul 17, 2016 7:22 am
Now he's tanking it !
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by Tsakali Mon Jul 18, 2016 3:45 pm
at first I thought this kind of balloonist
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by Captain Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:44 pm
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by obsidian Mon Jul 18, 2016 10:56 pm
If he's sticking to larger values of latitude as he is according to the map, would his circumvention of the planet not be significantly shorter than the actual diameter of the Earth?
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by Captain Mon Jul 18, 2016 10:59 pm
Yeah but he probably didn't want to get shot down by Israel.
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by losCHUNK Tue Jul 19, 2016 4:44 am
obsidian wrote: If he's sticking to larger values of latitude as he is according to the map, would his circumvention of the planet not be significantly shorter than the actual diameter of the Earth?
I did wonder why he didn't just walk in a circle around the south pole.
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by Captain Tue Jul 19, 2016 5:08 am
ey you can havein a t rip round my south-pole
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by Whiskey 7 Tue Jul 19, 2016 7:51 am
He's over the Atlantic already
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by Whiskey 7 Thu Jul 21, 2016 2:03 am
He's flying now!
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by Whiskey 7 Thu Jul 21, 2016 9:17 pm
Gone a little south
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by Whiskey 7 Fri Jul 22, 2016 10:07 pm
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by Whiskey 7 Sat Jul 23, 2016 5:50 am
Done and dusted - New record.
Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov has broken the record for the fastest circumnavigation of the Earth in a hot air balloon in just over 11 days.
Source
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via satellite apparently 
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He's flying now!