The first successful trans-Atlantic balloon flight was completed on this date in 1978, as Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman landed their Double Eagle II outside Paris. Here are some facts about hot-air ballooning, the mode of transport first developed by French papermaking brothers Joseph
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