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• 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.

News & Articles

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• The RC Morning Report for June 21
  It’s the first day of summer, and balloonist Whit Landvater was drifting over Gardnerville this morning. There’s not a breath of wind so far today, and it’s warmer by at least 5 degrees than it was on the last day of spring.
  June 21, 2013 - The Record-Courier