The view from inside mission control. Photograph: Jane Perrone
Thirteen hours and 13 minutes after Steve Fossett set off from Salina, Kansas, in his bid to fly around the world solo and nonstop, things are looking fairly good.
GlobalFlyer is flying at 45,000ft about 690 miles west of Africa, near the Azores at a speed on 330 knots.
But it hasn't all been plain sailing. In what Fossett described as a "showstopper", the GPS navigation system kept failing for a period of about two hours as he flew from US to Canadian airspace.
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