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BALLOONIST FOSSETT ALOFT ON GLOBAL ADVENTURE.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); Jun 19, 2002; 537 Words Byline: P-I news services AUSTRALIA - American adventurer Steve Fossett launched his latest solo round-the-world balloon trip attempt early today, his silver balloon rising over the western farming town of Northam after a long delay caused by surface winds. About 350 people cheered as the
Dispatches from the front; A second adventure to the Saudi desert; Minnesota native helps keep allied planes aloft over Iraq. One big challenge is beating the heat.(NEWS)(SERIES: Dispatches from the front)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); Jun 9, 2002; ; 700+ Words ...in Saudi Arabia, where he is involved in enforcing the no-fly zone over Iraq. This is my second adventure to this base and third adventure to this part of the world. My current job is fuels nightshift operations superintendent, and I belong...
Aloft In A Go-Cart With Wings: What do you get when you cross an airplane with a hang glider? The most sensational craft on three wheels.(Adventure/The Adventure Of Flight/First Person/Trike)
Popular Science; Nov 1, 2003; ; 700+ Words ...reason, I can't believe this bare-bones contraption stays aloft, or that I'm the one flying it. But that's the beauty...them. Just 17 hours to go. --WILLIAM SPEED WEED [BOX:] ADVENTURE GUIDE FLY A TRIKE DIFFICULTY: 1 2 3 4 5 [1] COST TO LEARN...
Aloft Hotels Launches Sweepstakes to Celebrate the Debut of Its New Online Experience.
Business Wire; Jun 8, 2009; 700+ Words ...announce the launch of the "Aloft Explore, Amuse + Win" sweepstakes...more than 140 free nights at Aloft Hotels, or adventures and getaways at participating...GPS systems, MP3 players, Aloft hotel getaways and more. The...
aloft Hotels To Unveil Updated Design Strategy in Second Life(R).
Business Wire; May 7, 2007; 700+ Words ...McGuinness, Vice President of aloft hotels. "At aloft, we are open in personality, open in design and open to adventure - much like the residents of Second...generation in hotel accommodations." aloft is the world's first hotel brand...
Aloft Breaks Ground in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.
Leisure & Travel Week; Oct 11, 2008; 700+ Words ...a hip, social atmosphere. Aloft Mount Laurel is ideally located...appreciate the hotel's proximity to Adventure Aquarium and the Philadelphia...chic and active social scene, Aloft Mount Laurel will complement...McGuinness, Vice President of Aloft and Element hotels worldwide...
RAIDERS OF ALOFT HEARTS.(Pasatiempo)(Movie review)
The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM); Jun 5, 2009; 700+ Words ...Byline: ROB DEWALT Raiders of aloft hearts Rob DeWalt I The New...flying computer-animated adventure, rated PG, Regal Stadium...loneliness and a longing for adventure. As a young boy, Carl is...eventually gives way to high adventure, after Carl is almost forced...pleased with the prospect. The ...
Borne Aloft On Hot Air
The Washington Post; Jul 21, 1987; ; 700+ Words ...of the age, historians will note that his epic voyage began aloft on the hot air of a joint congressional investigating committee...of Inouye the Proud? Our new Lindbergh may go on to daring adventures, but never again will this Lone Eagle experience the atmospheric...
Aussie Winds Keep Balloonist Aloft
AP Online; Jul 3, 2002; ; 700+ Words ...breaking balloon flight and forced him to spend another night aloft. The 58-year-old Chicago millionaire sailed into the record...across the Atlantic. Fossett already was planning his next adventure _ flying a glider up to the stratosphere above 60,000 feet...
HELIUM BALLOONS GO UP AND AWAY IN COMPETITIVE RE / MAX CUP RACE WITH GOOD LUCK, WINDS TEAMS HOPE TO TRAVEL FAR, STAY ALOFT FOR DAYS.(Local)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); Nov 7, 1999; ; 700+ Words ...winds, some of the teams hope to stay aloft for three days, traveling northeast...Albuquerque, said their goal is to stay aloft for two nights. ``We're going to...barrier with his body. ``I do it for the adventure,'' he said Saturday as he signed autographs...
Homemade Web site sends Tigard, Ore., balloon business aloft.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; Aug 26, 2004; 700+ Words ...customer," he said. "I want to focus on describing a unique adventure for individuals and families, without all the glitz." Designed...suitable, from April to October. Generally, customers stay aloft at least an hour, at an altitude of 1,500 to 2,000 feet...
Polanski's 'Twist' lacks vision of other films: Kingsley, scenery help keep unimpressive adaptation aloft
Charleston Daily Mail; Sep 22, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...many other fine and proper adaptations of the orphan boy's adventures. The very familiar story is told practically by rote, so...urchinlike Clark, help hold Polanski's pedestrian adaptation aloft. Leanne Rowe provides one of the film's deepest emotional...
CELEBRATION ALOFT: ANTICIPATION, TEMPERED WITH PATIENCE, IS HALF THE FUN AT SUFFOLK BALLOON FEST <.(LOCAL)
The Virginian Pilot; Apr 9, 1999; ; 700+ Words ...from a wand by ``Early Times,'' ``Shamu-Seaworld Adventure Parks,'' ``Food Lion,'' and ``GM Goodwrench Service...Virginian-Pilot Glo Kehoe pilots the ``Shamu-Seaworld Adventure Parks'' balloon as other balloons take flight Thursday night...
No Planes, 50 Trains, 150 Buses; Writer Circles Globe Without Going Aloft
The Washington Post; Jan 7, 1996; ; 700+ Words ...accomplished. Greenwald's meandering, adventure-filled route took him into North Africa...trip these days. That it can be a grand adventure I know firsthand. In 1972 and early...and always ingenious. Prior to this adventure, Greenwald had traveled extensively...
ALOFT IN A WICKER BASKET VAIL BALLOON COMPANY TAKES YOU TO PLACES FAR ABOVE THE HUMDRUM.(Sunday Magazine/Travel)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); Oct 26, 1997; 700+ Words ...crew that follows the balloon on the ground. When your pilot radios his proposed landing site, the crew is waiting. Your adventure concludes with a celebration that includes champagne. Standard flight wear includes comfortable, sturdy shoes or boots...
ALOFT IN NATURE'S SKYSCRAPERS
The Independent - London; Aug 6, 1995; ; 700+ Words ...threatened with destruction by Celtic Energy's vast open-cast mining project. Their tree houses are fortresses, and in this adventure story the beasts below - bureaucrats, mining contractors and Department of Transport meanies in bulldozers - are all too...
Aground and Aloft
Iowa Review; Apr 1, 2004; ; 700+ Words ...volunteers for the Fish and Wildlife trips to monitor gray wolves they have marked with radio collars. I'm not much for adventure these days, though. When I go up I want to know exactly when I'm coming down again. I want to picture the landing before...
Paradise aloft
Chicago Sun-Times (IL); May 29, 2009; ; 700+ Words ...Muntz, who must be a centenarian by now, is hale, hearty and mean, his solitary life shared only by robotic dogs. The adventures on the jungle plateau are satisfying in a Mummy/ Tomb Raider/Indiana Jones sort of way. But they aren't the whole point...
Imaginations Aloft; Hot-Air Balloons Can Carry Humans on the Wind and Just as Easily Burst Their Bubbles
The Washington Post; Jan 10, 1998; ; 700+ Words ...a balloon but ended up on an island in the Pacific in peril from humongous chickens. Balloons almost always provide more adventure than you bargain for. When French physicist Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles's first hydrogen balloon landed 15 miles from...
Walter Mitty goes aloft. (flight simulation software)(On Technology)(Column)
U.S. News & World Report; Jan 20, 1997; ; 700+ Words ...simulation that pilots praise as technically accurate and full of challenges but possibly dull if you are looking for action adventure. You can up the challenge, however, by setting the program for night flying, poor weather or equipment problems. This...
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