Source: Owls Head Transportation Museum – owlshead.org
Saturday, Jan 30, 2016 1:00 pm
Education program by author Charles Jacobs, author of Ausfalls: LZ 129 “Hindenburg” May Day Flight 1937.
Owls Head Transportation Museum
117 Museum Street
Owls Head, Maine
Source: The Seattle Times – seattletimes.com
It has been a year since two pilots from the U.S. and Russia lifted off from Japan with the aim of flying farther and longer in their gas balloon than anyone in history.
They did it, and a documentary about their record-breaking flight across the Pacific Ocean will premiere Feb. 6 in Albuquerque.
Source: FAI – World Air Sports Federation
Castles of the sky: early morning airship racing in Dubai
By Ed Ewing
Source: Wired – wired.com
By Rhett Allain
Have you ever seen a child with a balloon? It’s fun to watch. Kids pay attention to the world around them: They know that when you let go of something, it falls. Balloons don’t follow these rules, and it’s that exception that makes balloons so fascinating.
Source: Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.com
By Oleg Krasnov
Russian traveler announces attempt to break time set by Steve Fossett in 2002.