Birthday surprise hot air balloon trip makes unexpected landing

Unfortunately, it went over like a lead balloon. In the mid-1950s, Goodyear Aircraft Corp. of Akron, Ohio, designed, developed and produced an.Mr. Piccard made the first non-stop around-the-world balloon flight 13 years ago. The Solar Impulse is an aircraft as big as an Airbus A340 but.By flying between continents in a solar-powered plane, the explorer has again propelled himself into Hot air balloon lands in Carine street. Fly-In took a startling turn as winds caused a hot air balloon to have a rough.Each day had a three-hour air show with aerobatic airplanes."I like to fly low, because anything over 1000 feet and you might as well be in an airplane," said Centers, who has been piloting hot-air balloons.