Larry Newman

Anderson, Ben Abruzzo, and Larry Newman; of Anderson and his son Kristian; and of Abruzzo, Newman, Rocky Aoki, and Ron Clark, respectively. On March 20, 1999, Bertrand Piccard, whose grandfather Auguste Piccard invented the pressurized cabin, and Brian Jones completed the first nonstop trip around the world in a…

Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, and Larry M. Newman. The first transpacific balloon flight was made in 1981 by Americans Abruzzo, Newman, Ron Clark, and Rocky Aoki aboard the helium-filled Double Eagle V.

…Abruzzo, with Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman, made the first transatlantic balloon flight in the Double Eagle II. In 1979 Abruzzo and Anderson won the Gordon Bennett race in the Double Eagle III.

…third crew member was added, Larry Newman, head of the Electra Flyer Corporation, a maker of hang gliders, who applied his expertise to the building of the Double Eagle II. On August 11 it was launched from Presque Isle, Maine, and landed near Miserey, France, on August 17.