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Atlantic Canada's top 10 tourist destination. |
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September 11,12,13, 2009
"Atlantic Canada's Most Colourful
Festival"
Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada |
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For more information
contact the
Atlantic International Balloon Fiesta's office at:
Office- 506-432-9444
Fax - 506-432-9446
E-mail -
atlbf@nb.aibn.com
2008-SUSSEX - It's a scene that never grows tired - a
skyscape so colourful with hovering hot air balloons that even the
Sussex residents who are treated to front-row seats year after year
still get giddy...read
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Please help yourself to these pictures for Advertising.
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David HEMPLEMAN-ADAMS (UK) |
The FAI Ballooning Commission judged that David
Hempleman-Adams achieved the best performance in a Rozière balloon in
2003. At 02.30 on 26th September 2003 David Hempleman Adams took off
from Sussex, New Brunswick in Canada. The balloon was a Roziere with
90’000 cu.ft helium volume, supporting an ordinary wicker basket.
David was flying solo, taking sleep in short periods with an autopilot
controlling the burners at night. The flight went well for the first
day, in excellent weather, but on the second day the forecast
trajectories showed a track towards a thunderstorm area near the coast
of Spain followed by a southerly track and a landing in the sea. Luc
Trullemans, the meteorologist advised a descent to slow down. The plan
was successful, but only at the cost of having to fly high later
within freezing cloud conditions. The balloon was forced down at one
stage due to build-up of ice, which fell off in large lumps when the
balloon got down to warmer levels. The track at low levels would not
have allowed a successful crossing, however, so the pilot had to rise
into cloud again, repeating the process. After 83 hours of flight,
having flown over Ireland, David Hempelman-Adams made a landfall at
the English holiday town of Blackpool, passing within 300 metres of
its famous tower. A few kilometres inland, he made a successful
landing at 30 knots.
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Sussex is the proud home of a hot air ballooning record. On Sept. 26,
2003, David Hempleman Adams took off from the town for the first flight
across the Atlantic Ocean in an open balloon. He and his Rozière balloon
safely landed in Blackpool, England, 83 hours after he left Canadian
shores.
Successful trans-Atlantic balloon
challenge
Murray Hill, N.J., September 29, 2003 - British
explorer, David Hempleman-Adams today (September 29) became the first
person to cross the Atlantic in a balloon equipped with a wicker basket –
with BOC supplying the helium for the balloon.
BOC, one of the world’s leading global gases companies,
supported British explorer and balloonist David Hempleman-Adams’ attempt
to cross the Atlantic solo from North America to Europe, in a balloon
equipped with a wicker basket. Hempleman-Adams launched the balloon from
Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada on September 26 and successfully landed in
the United Kingdom (today) September 29. The AM-08 Roziere balloon
consisted of an open wicker basket and an envelope filled with 70,000
standard cubic feet of high purity gaseous helium provided by BOC.
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