AUGSBURG, Bavaria, May 27, 1931 (UP) - Two men in an aluminum ball, suspended from a great balloon, were tossed erratically by the winds over the Bavarian Alps tonight. They had ascended, probably ...

Mme. Auguste Piccard put her foot down. Middle-aged professors, she declared, especially her husband, should not risk their lives year after year making record-breaking balloon flights into the ...

INNSBRUCK, Austria, May 27, 1931 (UP) - The Innsbruck airdrome reported the experimental balloon of Prof. Auguste Piccard drifting in a changing wind over the northern part of Italy tonight. Airdrome ...

At 3:05 a.m. on Aug. 5, 1933, 50,000 spectators roared as the largest hot air balloon ever built lifted off from Soldier Field, glowing in the illumination of powerful floodlights. Tethered to the ...

The world of sport ballooning lost one of its pioneers with the death of Don Piccard on September 14, 2020. He was involved in the renaissance of hot air ballooning and a true pioneer of the sport.

We think of human flight as a relatively modern affair, with a few claims to the first airplane all around the turn of the last century. But people flew much earlier than that by using hot air ...

GENEVA, Switzerland — Jacques Piccard, a scientist and underwater explorer who plunged deeper beneath the ocean than any other man, died Saturday, his son’s company said. He was 86. Mr. Piccard died ...

The world of sport ballooning lost one of its pioneers with the death of Don Piccard on September 14, 2020. He was involved in the renaissance of hot air ballooning and a true pioneer of the sport.