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  2. Hot air ballooning - Wikipedia

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    Hot air balloon event. Hot air ballooning is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying hot air balloons. Attractive aspects of ballooning include the exceptional quiet (except when the propane burners are firing), the lack of a feeling of movement, and the bird's-eye view. Since the balloon moves with the direction of the winds ...

  3. List of ballooning accidents - Wikipedia

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    2023 Page hot-air balloon crash Page City Park, Arizona, USA: An Aerostar International Inc. X-8 hot air balloon crash-landed and hit a parked car after its burners failed to ignite during landing. A passenger was seriously injured when they fell out of the basket. [114] 0 1 14 January 2024: 2024 Eloy, AZ hot-air balloon crash Eloy, Arizona, USA

  4. 1989 Alice Springs hot air balloon crash - Wikipedia

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    The charge of committing a "dangerous act" was reported at the time as being unique to the Northern Territory. The judge found that the pilot had "failed to keep a proper lookout for a period of 30 seconds (during which the other balloon was hidden from view) and that the failure seriously endangered the lives of those below".

  5. Ballooning (spider) - Wikipedia

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    Ballooning, sometimes called kiting, is a process by which spiders, and some other small invertebrates, move through the air by releasing one or more gossamer threads to catch the wind, causing them to become airborne at the mercy of air currents and electric fields. A 2018 study concluded that electric fields provide enough force to lift ...

  6. Why maintaining America’s ballooning debt could be as big a ...

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    Part of the answer is clearly a supply-and-demand issue as a flood of new Treasury bills ($20.8 trillion in issuances so far in 2023) enters a more unstable market.Experts point to a range of ...

  7. 2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash - Wikipedia

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    On 26 February 2013, a hot air balloon crashed near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 out of the 21 people on board. A fire developed in the basket due to a leak in the balloon's gas fuel system, causing the balloon to deflate mid-air and crash to the ground. [1]

  8. What is a spy balloon, and why is China being accused of ...

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    The Pentagon announced on Thursday that it was tracking a suspected spy balloon flying in U.S. airspace.Defense officials said they had “very high confidence” that it belonged to China and ...

  9. The new college student sex trend and why it's so dangerous

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    The honey packets discourse online raises an important question: Why do some young men feel a need to use honey packets in the first place, assuming they don't have a sexual health issue? "These ...