the 41-year-old attached himself to 1,000 brightly-coloured helium balloons and took off from the Brazilian port city of ...

A cottage, sitting 10-metres from a cliff edge (towards the right of the frame) with a 400ft drop, following a rockfall (seen ...

This double balloon helium/hot air system ... 1793—The First Balloon Flight in North America: A 45-minute flight from Philadelphia to Gloucester County, New Jersey is made by Jean Pierre ...

Richard Brandon Cox The flight had originally been due to take ... wants to eventually set up a competitive helium balloon race in Africa. "We will have to avoid areas with lots of spiky bushes ...

We got an exclusive look inside Sceye's hangar in Roswell, New Mexico, a week before the company launched its balloon-like ...

Helium was non-flammable and thus a safer ... In 1956, Winzen Research created the balloons for the U.S. Air Force's new balloon flight program, Project Manhigh. Kittinger's 1960 jump.

Student teams in both programs have continually developed innovations to flight systems, including a heated helium-venting ...

Inevitably, mistakes happen, Mother Nature intervenes, and balloons go off the prescribed path through New York.

However, the lengthy flight stayed too long in the sun ... sent a balloon with a crew up in late 1935. Explorer II, a helium balloon, reached 22,066 meters with two Army Air Corps Captains ...

UAE residents are being urged to temper their release of helium balloons and advertising ... particularly high during night-time flights. “The blimps and balloons can damage engines and fans ...

In 1982, a truck driver made headlines when he tied 42 helium balloons to a garden chair and ... that was dreamed up on a whim. No - taking flight had been a lifelong ambition, he told ...

Student teams in both programs have continually developed innovations to flight systems, including a heated helium-venting system to enable ground teams to steer a balloon by directing it to ...