Two balloonists have unofficially left a distance record in their wake as they head east over the Pacific Ocean getting ready for a landing on Saturday somewhere on Mexico's Baja peninsula, eight days after lifting off from Japan.
American Troy Bradley and Russian Leonid Tiukhtyaev, dubbed the "Two Eagles" surpassed a 5,209-mile distance record for gas-filled balloons on Thursday. The previous record was set in 1981 by Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman, Ron Clark and Rock Aoki aboard Double Eagle V, also launched from Japan.
from Rhode Island Public Radio http://ift.tt/1tFaqqR
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