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2. New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning - Wikipedia

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   The New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning has been held annually at the Solberg Airport in Readington Township, New Jersey since 1983. Its lead sponsor is New Jersey Lottery. In 2012, the festival hosted around 125 special shape and sport hot air balloons. It also had music concerts, crafters and vendors, food, carnival rides and fireworks ...

3. List of hot air balloon festivals - Wikipedia

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   Warsteiner Internationale Montgolfiade (WIM), Germany. The Bristol International Balloon Fiesta (held in the city of Bristol, England), is one of the biggest festivals of its type in Europe. Temecula Valley Balloon and Wine Festival. Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, the largest gathering of hot air balloons in the world.

4. List of ballooning accidents - Wikipedia

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   List of ballooning accidents. This is a list of ballooning accidents by date. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various accidents that involved manned balloons, such as Montgolfiere hot-air balloons, Charlière gas balloons, or Rozière gas and hot-air hybrid balloons. This list does not include accidents involving other types ...

5. Ed Yost - Wikipedia

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   Ed Yost. Paul Edward Yost (June 30, 1919 – May 27, 2007) was the American inventor of the modern hot air balloon and is referred to as the "Father of the Modern Day Hot-Air Balloon." [ 1] He worked for a high-altitude research division of General Mills in the early 1950s until he left to establish Raven Industries in 1956, along with several ...

6. Montgolfier brothers - Wikipedia

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   Early years. Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier were born into a family of paper manufacturers. Their parents were Pierre Montgolfier (1700–1793) and Anne Duret (1701–1760), who had 16 children. [1] Pierre Montgolfier established his eldest son, Raymond (1730–1772), as his successor. [citation needed] Joseph-Michel was the ...

7. Videos: Watch a hot air balloon flight at the Balloon Classic

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   July 29, 2024 at 10:43 AM. JACKSON TWP. − The annual Balloon Classic took flight Friday morning and lasted through the weekend. Balloon pilot Dan Gerbus provided the Canton Repository with time ...

8. Warren County Farmers' Fair Balloon Festival - Wikipedia

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   The Fair itself was established in 1937 by the Warren County Farmers' Fair Association. The event is a non-profit 501 (c)6, agriculture in nature. The balloon festival was started by pilot Fred Grotenhuis, who has flown Hot air balloons since the mid 1980's. The festival began with approximately 15 balloons and to date has grown to about 30 ...

9. A man has fallen to his death from a hot-air balloon in ... - AOL

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   A man fell to his death from a hot-air balloon Monday as it passed over suburban Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city. The hot-air balloon took off from Melbourne’s northern suburbs early ...