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Balloon: non-stop round-the-world flight ten years ago
Grenchen, Switzerland - It was on 21 March 1999: Bertrand Piccard was accomplished the great enterprise
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"On 21 March 1999, Bertrand Piccard (CH) and Brian Jones (GB) landed in the Egyptian desert on board the Breitling Orbiter 3. They had just completed the first non-stop round-the-world balloon flight, taking them 45,633 km from the Swiss village of Château-d’Oex in 19 days, 21 hours and 47 minutes. This flight, which broke 7 world records, remains the longest in effective distance and duration in th...
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