balloonist
buh looh nist
- n someone who flies a balloon
- Jean Felix Piccard, 79, bushy-haired cosmic ray scientist and pioneer high-altitude balloonist, whose 1934 ascent to 57,579 ft.
- ALEX RITCHIE, 53, intrepid British balloonist whose airborne acrobatics--and buoyancy of spirit--last year averted mogul Richard Branson's balloon team's death by deflation; from .
- This was Jean Piccard, stratosphere balloonist, twin brother of Balloonist Auguste Piccard.