All about hot air balloons and ballooning.
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America's First Space Capsule - The Piccard Gondola was used to break high-altitude flight records in the 1930s. Pictures and the story.
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Auguste & Jean Piccard - Aeronautical Learning Library article on the lives of these high-altitude balloon pioneers who first designed high-altitude balloon capsules in the 1930s.
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Ballooning World Records - Official FAI site listing all current balloon and airship world records. World records for distance, duration, and altitude, plus women's world records.
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British Balloon and Airship Records - Official list of current British Balloon and Airship Club world records. In Adobe Acrobat format.
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Explorer II - Launched on November 11, 1935, from the Stratobowl near Rapid City, South Dakota, Explorer II carried Albert Stevens, Orvil Anderson, and an assortment of instruments to a world record altitude of 72,395 feet.
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First pressurized cabin for a hot air balloon - In 1974, Nott and Roger Munk design the world's first hot air balloon with a pressurized cabin. Nott pilots it to a world record altitude of 45,836 feet.
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French Transatlantic Crossing, 2000 - French crossing of the Atlantic to celebrate the millennium. Launching in a roziere in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada they landed in western France after setting a duration record.
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Hot Air Altitude Record Flight in 1980 - In 1980, Nott builds the world's second pressurized cabin for a hot air balloon, designed with Roger Munk, and pilots it to 55,134 feet from Longmont, Colorado.
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Indoor World Record - 1997 Guinness record for most indoor inflations of hot air balloons.
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Pibal World Record - OK, it's not your typical world record, but there was a hot air ballon there... Now what's the most pibals ever released?
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Canadian Balloon Records - The official Canadian Balloon Association list of recordholders by category. Canadian records must be set by citizens or residents of Canada, and are usually within Canada.
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