The stump screams, and he eases up, but he can see the finish now: Pentagon to the left, the canopy of Army black - and - gold
balloons over the finish line, the tiny viewing stand and... wait.
During / the midmorning of March 21, they soared into the history books when their
balloon, Breitling Orbiter 3, sped at 130 miles an hour at an altitude of 36,000 feet
over an invisible
finish line at 9 degrees 27 minutes west longitude in Mauritania.