AMO 72189 Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer

The Scaled Composites Model 311 Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer is an aircraft designed by Burt Rutan in which Steve Fossett flew a solo nonstop airplane flight around the world in a time of 67 hours 1 minute from February 28, 2005 until March 3, 200S. The flight speed of 590.7 km/h broke the Absolute World Record for the fastest nonstop circumnavigation set by the previous Rutan-designed Voyager aircraft at 9 days 3 minutes and a average speed of 186.11 km/h. Between February 8, 2006 February 11, 2006, Fossett flew the GlobaiFlyer for the longest aircraft flight distance in history: 41.467 km.

Catalog number: AMO 72189
Scale: 1/72
Type: Airliner
Period: Modern time (from 1991)
Weight: 140 gramm