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Weather Delays Gas Balloon Races
The pilots and crews are here, the officials are ready, and all that’s needed now to get the 52nd Coupe Gordon Bennett and the 13th America’s Challenge gas balloon races underway is the right weather....
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Gordon Bennett/America’s Challenge Launch Set Tonight
With the big, bad cold front safely off to the east of Albuquerque, the weather-delayed Gordon Bennett and America’s Challenge gas balloon races are finally set for launch. The 12 Gordon Bennett and...
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Gordon Bennett and America’s Challenge are Underway!
Seventeen gas balloons are moving slowly across Albuquerque this evening, competing in the 52nd Coupe Gordon Bennett and the 13th America’s Challenge Gas Balloon Race. Launch of the balloons began at...
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First American Team Lands in Gordon Bennett
The Command Center has just received word that the US-3 team of Louis Vitanza and Bert Padelt has landed safely at Portales, NM, near the eastern New Mexico border. It should be noted that the Command...
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America’s Challenge Duration Record Falls; Gordon Bennett passes 1,000 Mile Mark
Just one balloon remains aloft in the 13th America’s Challenge distance race for gas balloons — and set a new duration record for the race in the bargain. Mark Sullivan, the race’s founder, and his...
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Gordon Bennett Leaders Land; Two Balloons Still Aloft
The 52nd Coupe Aeronautique Gordon Bennett may have started oh so slowly in light winds over New Mexico, but it’s coming to a dramatic finish in the US upper Midwest. The British team of David...
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