ALBUQUERQUE,
N.M. – Two pilots from the U.S. and Russia have traveled farther and
longer in a gas balloon than anyone in history, trying to eliminate any
remaining debate over a century of records in long-distance ballooning.
N.M. – Two pilots from the U.S. and Russia have traveled farther and
longer in a gas balloon than anyone in history, trying to eliminate any
remaining debate over a century of records in long-distance ballooning.
The Two
Eagles pilots surpassed the distance and duration records that have held since
the 1970s and 1980s, and were aiming Saturday for a safe landing somewhere on a
beach in Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
Eagles pilots surpassed the distance and duration records that have held since
the 1970s and 1980s, and were aiming Saturday for a safe landing somewhere on a
beach in Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
Troy
Bradley of Albuquerque and Leonid Tiukhtyaev (too-kh-TY'-yev) of Russia lifted
off from Japan Sunday morning, and by Friday, they beat what's considered the
"holy grail" of ballooning achievements, the 137-hour duration record
set in 1978 by the Double Eagle crew of Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry
Newman in the first balloon flight across the Atlantic.
Bradley of Albuquerque and Leonid Tiukhtyaev (too-kh-TY'-yev) of Russia lifted
off from Japan Sunday morning, and by Friday, they beat what's considered the
"holy grail" of ballooning achievements, the 137-hour duration record
set in 1978 by the Double Eagle crew of Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry
Newman in the first balloon flight across the Atlantic.
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