The caged duck looked down as terra firma slowly drifted away. Above the duck, a balloon, constructed of paper and fabric, provided the lift necessary to carry aloft the duck and its companions, a ...

On December 14, 1782, the Montgolfier brothers—Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne—set out on their first serious flight test of the lighter-than-air conveyance they had developed while researching and ...

WITH INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AS WELL. HE GOES ON TRIAL IN JULY FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, HOT AIR BALLOONING HAS CAPTURED IMAGINATIONS EVERYWHERE, ESPECIALLY HERE IN THE HOT AIR BALLOON CAPITAL OF THE ...

If it took the Wright brothers to father powered flight from *** dusty old mound in North Carolina. Then the father of hot air ballooning is *** man working out of an equally dusty old shop in ...

A lot can go wrong at 3,200 feet in the air. It's a thought that inevitably crosses your mind as your soar across the skies of Lancaster County in a glorified picnic basket, the only thing keeping you ...

Theories about Peruvian Indians using balloons in ancient times are many, but the first documented balloon carrying passengers was set aloft in 1783 when two Frenchmen lit a pile of straw and wood on ...

Competitive hot air ballooning may not be a sport you've given much thought, but it too, is feeling the chilly winds of "disruption." An app created by Australian developer Sean Kavanagh, OziTarget, ...

World View plans to develop a balloon system to carry tourists and scientists to the edge of space. That system will operate under a commercial license from the FAA's Office of Commercial Space ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Just days away from the 15th anniversary of the death of a champion Albuquerque balloonist, his family is looking ahead to a different celebration of his life. Richard ...