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balloon flight

  • Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
    In balloon flight

    Hot-air balloons may be used for short flights at low altitudes or taken on “long jumps,” using stronger winter winds to travel hundreds of kilometres at altitudes of up to about 3 km (2 miles). Gas balloons can stay aloft for several days and travel…

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  • Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
    In balloon flight: Modern hot-air balloons

    A small group of engineers under Wes Borgeson at General Mills developed a polyethylene hot-air balloon with a propane burner that was successfully flown by Tom Olson and later by Paul (“Ed”) Yost perhaps as early as 1955. Yost, then at Raven Industries,…

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festival in Plano

  • Plano: U.S. Courthouse
    In Plano

    …of Texas,” hosts a popular hot-air balloon festival each September. Inc. 1873. Pop. (2010) 259,841; Dallas-Plano-Irving Metro Division, 4,235,751; (2020) 285,494; Dallas-Plano-Irving Metro Division, 5,129,966.

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