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AvTalk Episode 314: World Champion Gas Ballooning

On this episode of AvTalk, we learning all about long endurance gas balloons with a world record holder. We learn more about the erroneous TCAS alerts that plagued aircraft near DCA at the beginning of March and what the FAA is doing following a fist fight in the DCA air traffic control tower. Heathrow’s chief continues to defend the airport’s handling of the power outage two weeks ago. And Russian investigators release their final report on Aeroflot flight 1492, which suffered a hard landing and subsequent fire during a diversion back to Moscow in 2019.

18:46 What does it take to fly a gas balloon from Germany to Scotland? We climb into the basket with Kolja Packard and Wuzi Wagner of the Austria 2 Gas Balloon Team to learn all about long endurance gas ballooning, what makes it challenging, and how you keep busy for days at a time a few thousand feet in the air.

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  1. Sorry, That was NO flight! IT was a drive.
    The definition is, everything heavier than air, like an aircraft, flies. Lighter than air, like a gas balloon, drives through the air.

    1. Would this app, or program, follow ,let’s say, the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds air show?

  2. I love the app I have saw so many fighter Jets in the uk and the usa and Rusirer

  3. RE: Canada/US Transborder issue. You misunderstand. The direction of travel is much more important to consider in this than normal when assessing stats. Canadians are being strategic. We want to punish US Republican states because of Trump’s ‘51st State’ threats to our sovereignty, harassment at the border by the US, and inane tariff destruction of our Free Trade agreement _Trump signed_ 5 years ago and has now ripped up without warning. We don’t want to adversely affect our tourism industry by making the American people angry at us. So flights south from Canada to the US are being avoided because of US actions against us; the reverse direction is normal traffic.

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