The Lighter-Than-Air Society

Source: NBC News

By Ayman Mohyeldin, Charlene Gubash and John Newland, NBC News

A hot air balloon carrying foreign tourists caught on fire while it was in the air near Egypt’s ancient city of Luxor, killing 19 people, officials said Tuesday.

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Source: National Aeronautic Association (NAA)

The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) presents its annual list detailing the Most Memorable Aviation Records of the previous year.

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Source: Red Bull Stratos

Felix Baumgartner’s supersonic freefall from the edge of space on October 14, 2012, reached an even faster speed than originally estimated: Mach 1.25. The statistic was just part of the news shared in a report detailing the results of a three-month-long analysis of mission data conducted by the Red Bull Stratos science team, released on 5 February 5, 2013.

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Source: wired.com

By Spencer Ackerman

And so ends the U.S. military’s dream of mega-blimps strapped with powerful surveillance gear. The Army confirms to Danger Room that it’s killed the last of those lighter-than-air ships.

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Source: designtaxi.com

By Dorothy Tan

While this flying balloon house is a more precise recreation of the one in Disney Pixar’s “Up”, you may feel safer traveling in this professionally made hot air balloon.

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