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...balloon crash; in Brückenau, West Germany. After amassing a mining fortune, Anderson took up ballooning as "a way of entering history." In his final flight, Anderson and frequent Co-Pilot Don Ida, 49, were desperately trying to land before drifting into East Germany when their gondola became detached and the two adventurers plunged 2,000 ft. to their deaths...
...canal and gardens. Some 3,000 guards will patrol the palace this weekend, and at the request of jittery U.S. officials, six antiaircraft missiles will be placed around the park. Frogmen have inspected every pool and canal for bombs and killer rabbits; the schedule allows for a late-afternoon gondola ride, if weather permits...
...silvery balloon, man not only was transported but moved again last week. Double Eagle V, which lifted off and blew away from Japan on Tuesday, came down nearly four days later in a rainstorm near the little mountain town of Covelo, Calif. The four adventurers in the gondola-Ben Abruzzo, 51, Larry Newman, 34, Ron Clark, 41 (all of Albuquerque), and Rocky Aoki, 43, Japanese-born owner of the Benihana restaurant chain-drank champagne toasts to the first balloon to make it across the Pacific Ocean and then settled down to wait overnight for rescue...
...amount of ozone may fluctuate with variations in the sun's ultraviolet radiation. To help settle the argument, Harvard's James G. Anderson plans to launch a huge balloon, 450 ft. in girth, in New Mexico next fall. Equipped with a battery of sensitive devices, its gondola will move up and down like a yo-yo through the upper atmosphere, between altitudes of 12 miles and 25 miles, not only measuring the ozone but detecting chemicals that may be destroying...
...same as Phileas Fogg's, the means even less down to earth. In a gossamer-thin (.004 in.) polyurethane balloon rigged with a 14-ft. by 10-ft. unpressurized gondola, famed Aeronaut Maxie Anderson, 46, set out from Luxor, Egypt, last week, along with fellow Businessman and Adventurer Don Ida, 47. Their plan: to travel eastward around the world-south of Iran and the U.S.S.R. (hostile airspace), south of the Himalayas (deadly to balloons), over the Pacific and North America to an eastern Mediterranean landing spot-in less than ten days. To complete the high-speed journey, the eleven...