Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew a plane built by volunteers in a Mojave Desert hangar. On takeoff, the fuel-heavy wings scraped the runway and the winglets broke off. They kept flying anyway. Nine days, three minutes and 44 seconds later, they landed after circling the entire globe nonstop. They had just 106 pounds of fuel left, only 1.5% of what they took off with. The plane now hangs in the Smithsonian.
