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Balloons. 62nd Coupe Aeronautique: Poland 2 is the winner

The final ranking of the "Gordon Bennett"

A Polish team has flown their gas balloon 1145.29km from Bern, Switzerland without touching down, achieving the furthest distance from take-off and winning the "2018 Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett". The Poland 2 crew -Mateusz Rekas and Jacek Bogadanski, both regulars in the famous balloon race– combined years of flying experience to use the weather systems to take a course across Germany and in...

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Berne, Switzerland, 10/01/2018 15:35
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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