Archive for October, 2008
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World Hot Air Balloon Championships 2008
Saturday, October 4th, 2008
The 2008 World Hot Air Balloon Championships was held at Hofkirchen, Austria
See below for the opening ceremony. Of this huge World Championships
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Human remains found at Fossett plane crash site (Times of Malta)
Saturday, October 4th, 2008
January 18, 2003: US adventurer Steve Fossett and his wife Peggy smile during the opening day of the Hot Air Balloon Festival in Chateau d’Oex.
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Balloon adventure was a bust in 1843 (The Staunton News Leader)
Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Staunton had a love affair with flight long before it became a practical and commercial success. In the 1830s, for example, residents frequently amused themselves by constructing small paper balloons, inflating them with hot air and sending them up at night adorned with candles for illumination.