On September 25, a unique gas balloon took off from the region of Gruyère, Switzerland. In a “green” approach towards energy production, the hydrogen used in the flight was produced purely by water ...

ALBUQUERQUE, NM / ACCESSWIRE / October 3, 2023 / Seventeen gas balloons will be traveling across the United States as part of the 66th annual Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race (Gordon ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In just a few days, Albuquerque’s sky will fill up with balloons of all shapes and sizes. This year, more than a dozen balloons will compete in the annual Gordon Bennett gas ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gas ballooning, as an adventure sport, is likely to fade away in the United States, as a sharp spike in helium prices and supply constraints threaten the survival of the sport.

In the years since then, balloon flight technology has evolved from cloth balloons and open baskets to polyethylene balloons ...

Three adventurers are planning to fly a hydrogen gas balloon over the Atlantic Ocean this month, living in a basket about the size of a large dinner table for the potentially record-breaking, five-day ...

A balloon racing across the country in an international competition exploded Monday night after it crashed into a power line in Kaufman County. Two pilots from Poland, Krzysztof Zapart and Piotr Halas ...

Troy Bradley (USA) and Leonid Tyukhtyaev (Russia) established the greatest distance travelled in a non-stop flight in a gas balloon, when their helium balloon Two Eagles completed the 10,711.6-km ...