Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flight crew has laid in cases of champagne for the landing celebration, but the crew may be too exhausted to care. As the balloon has come closer to its goal, a stressed Piccard reportedly has taken to having someone hypnotize him over the radio in order to sleep. But maybe he should stay awake a little longer, so he doesn't miss a single second of what remains of this historic flight...
...Egypt. High above Mauritania a little before 10 a.m. GMT Saturday, the Breitling Orbiter 3 crossed over the 9 degree west longitude line that meant it had become the first balloon to fly completely around the world. Now pilots Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones will try to keep the craft headed east until they reach Egypt for a dramatic landing at the pyramids Sunday morning...
Fatigue, chills and dwindling fuel supplies forgotten, two men in a balloon high above the Atlantic have the wind at their backs and their eyes firmly on the prize. Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones' balloon, Breitling Orbiter 3, rose gently toward the heavens 100 miles north of Puerto Rico Thursday afternoon. At 32,670 feet they were swept along at a brisk 88 miles an hour by the surging jet stream, which they hope will carry them to Africa and into the history books. The pair set out on March 1 and have already come closer than anyone to realizing...
...Wednesday, it must be Cuba... The communist island said it would let the Breitling Orbiter 3 gas and hot air balloon pass over its airspace today en route to a world record. Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Britain's Brian Jones--the latest heirs of an aeronautical tradition that began in 1783 when a sheep, a duck and a rooster first went up in a Montgolfier balloon at Versailles France--are planning to land in North Africa on Saturday, and become the first men to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in a balloon. The Breitling, which headed south and then east...
...national cinema. Not since the Czech New Wave of the mid-'60s has a country made such a lovely noise at the big festivals and in Western capitals where the term foreign film doesn't evoke a yawn. Directors Abbas Kiarostami (A Taste of Cherry), Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon) and Samira's father Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Gabbeh) are as revered in the world film community as they are anonymous at American 'plexes...