Past the Cape, on to distance records!

He's over Florida now, past the cape, and around the world plus!
Interesting stuff happened along the way yesterday, it turns out: Fossett was ready to bail out, but pressed on.
While he was going through a patch of extreme turbulence over Bhopal, India, he said he "was afraid it was going to break up. It was a scary time and I had my parachute on and I was prepared to bail out in case a wing broke."
But Fossett didn't reveal the scary episode to mission controllers in England until several hours later, after the danger had passed and he had started across the Pacific Ocean. At the time of the incident, he was in radio contact, but only told mission managers that there had been turbulence and he was "uncomfortable."
During part of that turbulent episode, he was actually on the radio with Virgin chairman Richard Branson, who said afterward that it sounded like the plane was taking a real battering.
The jet-powered plane, build entirely of carbon-fiber composite by Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, US, is built for minimum weight to maximize its efficiency and range, but that makes it about four times more vulnerable to turbulence than a commercial jet, according to company statements. So there is real risk of structural damage in such situations.

The jet-powered plane, build entirely of carbon-fibre composite by Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, US, is built for minimum weight to maximize its efficiency and range, but that makes it about four times more vulnerable to turbulence than a commercial jet, according to company statements. So there is real risk of structural damage in such situations.