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Night Crossing is a 1982 thriller drama film starring John Hurt, Jane Alexander and Beau Bridges.The film is based on the true story of the Strelzyk and Wetzel families who, on September 16, 1979, escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot-air balloon during the Inner German border-era, when emigration to West Germany was strictly prohibited by the East German government.
Maxie Anderson (September 10, 1934 – June 27, 1983) was an American hot air balloonist and Congressional Gold Medal recipient. [1] He was part of the balloon crews that made the first Atlantic ocean crossing by balloon in the Double Eagle II and the first Pacific ocean crossing by balloon in the Double Eagle V.
The film depicts the crossing of the Inner German border by the Strelzyk and Wetzel families from the GDR to West Germany with a self-made hot-air balloon in 1979. The two families, including four children, successfully floated across the sky from Pößneck , Thuringia to Naila , Bavaria, then situated 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of the Iron ...
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The balloon and sensor often endure temperatures as low as 139 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, air pressures only a few thousandths of what is found on the Earth's surface, ice, rain, thunderstorms ...
Ultramagic special shape balloon, managed by Paseosenglobo and sponsored by Movistar Ultramagic N-180 with special shapes, registered in the Netherlands. The company has its roots in 1978 when three friends, Josep Maria Lladó, aeronautical engineer and balloonist, Joan Comellas and Jaume Llansana, [3] started to fly with a second-hand hot air balloon, and soon after decided to build a bigger ...
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Leyla Sanai in The Independent's writes "Levels of Life uses the pioneering of balloon flight and the development of aerial photography as metaphors for the soaring heights, freedom, and imprinting of memories, of love. But there is no disguising the raw pain that pulses throughout; the solitary heartbeat of the one left behind..."Every love ...