A Lot of Hot Air

The first Tarnsatlantic Flight in a Balloon 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A lot of hot air. We'll discuss as we take
a bite out of history with ingles markets. Hot air
balloons gave humans flight since the seventeen eighties. By the
mid eighteen fifties, sport ballooning became popular, and early aviators
tried to break endurance and distant records in balloons. In
eighteen fifty nine, the first attempt at a transatlantic balloon
flight was launched, but failed. In total, there were seventeen
failed attempts to cross the Atlantic via balloon between eighteen

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fifty nine and nineteen seventy eight that included at least
seven deaths. Then, in nineteen seventy eight, Ben Abruzzo, Maxi Anderson,
and Larry Newman launched the Double Eagle two. It was
an eleven story tall, helium filled balloon and was launched
from the coast of Maine with the destination of France,
more specifically, the same location that Charles Lindberg reached in
his airplane. After one hundred and thirty seven hours of flight,

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traveling three thousand, two hundred and thirty three miles, the
aviators completed their journey to France. They landed a bit
off course about fifty miles from Paris, setting new world
records for ballooning. The men lived on water, hot dogs,
and canned sardines during the six day adventure. This has
been a bite out of history with Angeles markets.