Cover of Riding the Jetstream :The Story of Ballooning

Riding the Jetstream :The Story of Ballooning

From Montgolfier to Breitling

by Sam Youd

2002 256 pages eng

"Ballooning can be both an all-absorbing hobby and a competitive high-tech sport. Most recently aviation's last great challenge, the nonstop round-the-world voyage has dominated the field. This book tells the story of competitive ballooning, from the Montgolfier brothers of the eighteenth century to…

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