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Aug 17th, 2005 at 7:54am

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Well on this day in 1978 Eagle II with her crew Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman and Max Anderson completed the flight from Maine in the US to France after 6 days. The first successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon 8)
 
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Reply #1 - Aug 18th, 2005 at 3:05am

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But that was long after the first successful crossing while filled with hot air.
[I may need to deflate and employ parachute before I get shot with a counter-claim for that one Tongue Grin]
 
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