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The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is a yearly hot air balloon festival that takes place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during early October. The Balloon Fiesta is a nine-day event occurring in the first full week of October, and has over 500 hot air balloons each year, far from its beginnings of merely 13 balloons in 1972. [1] The event ...
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta has brought colorful displays to the New Mexico sky in an international event that attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators every year. The event ...
Watch live as hot air balloons fill the skies above New Mexico during the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta on Monday 9 October. The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta brings colorful ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The state fair is over, but Expo New Mexico is still full of events during Balloon Fiesta and throughout the month of October. Expo New Mexico General Manager Dan ...
Creston Hot Air Balloon Days: Creston, Iowa: United States: 1978 3rd weekend in September: Delta Air Balloon Festival: Greenville, Mississippi: United States — Dolomiti Balloonfestival: Toblach: Italy: 2003 European Balloon Festival: Igualada, Catalonia: Spain: 1997 First fortnight of July: European Hot Air Balloon Championships: Varies ...
The National Balloon Museum is a non-profit museum that is located in Indianola, Iowa. It was founded in 1975 in short term locations, later gaining a permanent location in 1988. [6] All of the museum's exhibits are about hot air ballooning and gas ballooning. [7] The museum is in the shape of a hot air balloon's gondola. [7]
Oct. 4—Every October, hundreds of hot air balloons fill the New Mexico skies for Balloon Fiesta. Although there's nothing like experiencing the Balloon Fiesta up close and personal on the field ...
Ben Abruzzo and Maxie Anderson most notably crewed the Double Eagle II balloon in 1978, the first gas balloon to complete a transatlantic flight. Abruzzo and Anderson stretched the limits of ballooning and air travel until their untimely passings in 1983, and are honored for their excellence and history with ballooning here in Albuquerque. [1]