"Adventurist" Steve Fossett made his billions trading soybean futures, so of course it makes perfect sense that he'd make the leap to adventure aviation. Right?
We all remember when this fruitcake went missing last year after his small aircraft went off the grid somewhere over the Nevada wilderness. Search planes cris-crossed some of the most forbidding terrain in the country for weeks in hopes that Fossett would be found. I'm not sure exactly how long the searching went on because, at some point, I stopped caring enough to follow the coverage on CNN -- but the point is they never found Steve or his borrowed aircraft.
Well, friends and neighbors, it seems a 10-member team of elite athletes and expert mountaineers will soon take a crack at finding Waldo -- they'll all be paying their own way. I don't know about you, but I'd probably be kind of pissed if I found out that even more taxpayer money was being thrown at finding a guy who fully knew the risks involved in enjoying his chosen avocation.
There will be an update if and when the latest search team turns up anything. I'm sure you all are holding your collective breath.
Big Up - Amelia Earhart
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