British explorer breaks hot air balloon record.Byline: ANI London, Sept 20 (ANI): British explorer David Hempleman-Adams David Hempleman-Adams, LVO, OBE, (born 1956 in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English adventurer. He is the first man in history to reach the Geographic and Magnetic North and South Poles as well as climb the highest peaks in all seven continents, a feat he christened the has broken the endurance record by spending more than 14 hours in a tiny hot air balloon This article is about hot air balloons themselves. For the associated activity, see Hot air ballooning. The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology, dating back to its invention by the Montgolfier brothers in Annonay, over the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Hempleman-Adams, 52, of Box, Wiltshire, set the record over the US riding in a scaled-down basket. He flew 200 miles from Butler, Missouri, to Cherokee, Oklahoma, in 14 hours and 15 minutes using the class AA-01 balloon, reports The Telegraph. The previous record was an eight hours and 12 minutes flight undertaken by American Coy Foster in March 1983. Hempleman-Adams said his record-breaking flight in the CMC (Common Messaging Calls) A programming interface specified by the XAPIA as the standard messaging API for X.400 and other messaging systems. CMC is intended to provide a common API for applications that want to become mail enabled. 1. Markets Challenger balloon had "a bit of everything" and was "absolutely fantastic". "Beautiful scenery, some scary times, and a real test of skill," he said. Hempleman-Adams credited his success to a strong, experienced team and his lucky mascot - Nigel Mitchell, the official observer for the flight. "I have had a brilliant team. My lucky mascot is Nigel. Whenever he accompanies me on my flights I win.' It was one of those trips which was just amazingly lucky. "Everything came together, it was absolutely fantastic, beautiful weather, no thunderstorms thunderstorms a storm characterized by thunder and lightning caused by strong rising air currents; identified as agents of animal disease because of their involvement causing (1) spasmodic colic; (2) lightning strike; (3) injuries of cattle acquired in stampedes initiated by storms. , the team all turned up at the right times and all the equipment arrived in the right places," he said. (ANI) Copyright E 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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