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"Ballooning can be both an all-absorbing hobby and a competitive high-tech sport. Most recently aviation's last great challenge, the nonstop round-the-world voyage has dominated the field. This book tells the story of competitive ballooning, from the Montgolfier brothers of the eighteenth century to today's riders of the jetstream - the narrow band of fast winds high in the Earth's atmosphere. Fascinating historical byways are glimpsed, from Napoleonic...
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"This book chronicles not only the development and advances in hot air ballooning but provides insights into the people who developed the sport--many of whom lost their lives in the process. The book concludes at the beginning of the 20th century, when the age of the airplane rendered hot air balloons all but obsolete for nonrecreational applications"--
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There's a special delivery in the mail for Becca today: tickets to see the Firefly Flyby in Uncle Ned's hot-air balloon! It's the perfect adventure for the Bunch, as Becca and her friends Pedro, Sylvia, and Russell like to call themselves. But, excitement turns to worry when Becca realizes she has only three tickets but that there are four of them all together. Oh, feathers! How will Becca choose which of her friends to take on the Firefly Flyby?...
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