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Falling Stars Observed from the Balloon, illustration by Albert Tissandier for the second edition of James Glaisher's Travels in the Air, 1871

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Prepare for trouble

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Ballooning's biggest race pushes teams to fly as far as possible before landing. Thirty years ago, two of those teams drifted into Belarusian airspace. Only one survived.

By late morning, the Spirit of Springfield and the D-Caribbean had been airborne for more than 60 hours and 750 miles. Both balloons were well positioned for victory. Fraenckel radioed Wallace to see how he and Brielmann were faring.

For our sister publication The Atavist Magazine, Nick Davidson recounts this race that turned disastrous. 

Read an excerpt from this true story on Longreads.

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[caleod]

15-11-24

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today's bug thing is this ladybug hot air balloon!

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uh... um... so I uh....

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I don’t think we’ve talked enough about the balloon.

He notices the wind pick up. He had been on boats, he knows that winds like that can blow things away. Who does he immediately look for? Pen.

And where is she? Talking to Lord Penguin. He’s like the first person to realize the balloon is getting away, other than the workers of course.

She is in the way of the balloon. It’s direct path. He sees their life together flash before his eyes. He jumps into action.

He needs to save her. Debling, Cressida, and Eloise all run away, not taking Pen with them (Eloise was surprising in that. I think she would have pulled her along.)

While the balloon keeps moving towards her, Pen seems paralyzed with fear and cannot move far away enough. Debling, instead of moving her out of the path, pulls her down and tries to shield her.

Colin is the one who saves her. But after the balloon almost topples her and crushes her, Debling just leaves and goes to Cressida (yeah she was “hurt” but giiiirl)

Yes his sister was also in the way of the balloon, but he was thinking of Pen and only Pen. His Penelope.

He saved her, he was only thinking about saving her.

Colin “My Wife” Bridgerton has come home.

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(by Daniel Seßler)

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Prepare for trouble

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Finished version of my last sketch

The brothers are closer to the stars ✨🌌🎈