Sentences with phrase «manned balloon flight»
Baumgartner shattered three other world records: highest manned balloon flight, highest altitude jump and the fastest free fall.
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He reached speeds of 833.9 mph or Mach 1.24 and set several other records including highest manned balloon flight and highest skydiving jump.
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On the next go - round he rose to 123,500 feet — more than 23 miles — over the South Dakota prairie, still the highest flight by a manned balloon.
On its flight across the Pacific — the first for a balloon — the four - man crew battled violent storms and a buildup of two tons of ice on the balloon's surface, forcing them at one point to hover just 4,500 feet above the ocean.
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A few years ago, we did a They Shot Pictures episode on Hou (you can listen here), and around that time I wrote about Café Lumière and Good Men, Good Women, and collected some images from Flight of the Red Balloon.
Birdmen sets the engrossing story of the Wrights» war with Curtiss against the thrilling backdrop of the early years of manned flight, and is rich with period detail and larger - than - life personalities: Thomas Scott Baldwin, or «Cap» t Tom» as he styled himself, who invented the parachute and almost convinced the world that balloons were the future of aviation; John Moisant, the dapper daredevil who took to the skies after three failed attempts to overthrow the government of El Salvador, then quickly emerged as a celebrity flyer; and Harriet Quimby, the statuesque silent - film beauty who became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
Described as a somewhat magical experience, hot air ballooning is one of the oldest forms of flight known to man.
Ivan Trifonov has gained his fifth Guinness World record by becoming the first man alive to accomplish an underground hot air balloon flight, supported by the Croatian National Tourist Board.
The powerful soundtrack is accompanied by black - and - white images of early manned flight - dirigibles, hot air balloons, and planes — to reference Hendrix's little - discussed time as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne.