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Article: AROUND THE WORLD IN 20 DAYS BALLOONISTS PICCARD, JONES CLOSE IN ON RECORD VOYAGE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 20, 1999
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The Breitling Orbiter 3 balloon was less than one day's flying time last night from achieving what had thwarted balloonists for two centuries: A non-stop voyage around the world.
The big balloon's pilots - Dr. Bertrand Piccard, a Swiss psychiatrist, and Brian Jones, a British balloonist - radioed a message to their ground crew headquarters at Geneva Airport that for the first time during their 19 days aloft, they had begun to relax. It appeared virtually certain that they would accomplish their goal.
The balloon team's meteorologists forecast that the balloon, now over the Atlantic after crossing Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean and Central America, would ...