" When Degeneres asked if there were either balloons or a hot air balloon involved, Johansson replied, "No, hot air balloon involved.
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CNN reports the pilot of the hot air balloon was identified as Alfred "Skip" Nicholas, according to Alan Lirette, the ground crew supervisor for Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides.
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For her 80th birthday, she rode a hot air balloon.
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TC: Meaning no hot air balloon chairs in the office?
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DOG HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A HOT AIR BALLOON?
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Efforts to reform how the hot air balloon industry is regulated have picked up steam since the worst hot air balloon disaster in U.S. history, when a balloon crash left 16 people dead last year.
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A good example is Judith Leiber's bejeweled hot air balloon clutch.
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Hot air balloon crashes are rare, and injuries even more so.
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It is the deadliest hot air balloon accident in US history.
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The hot-air balloon of media attention deflated in an instant.
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It is also where we will take our hot air balloon!
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There are sometimes other notable events, like hot-air balloon rides.
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Efforts to reform how the hot air balloon industry is regulated have picked up steam since the worst hot air balloon disaster in U.S. history occurred last year, when a balloon crash left 16 people dead.
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Hot air balloon in flight in the backlight of the setting sun.
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Sometimes artists soar, specially when they're transformed into a hot air balloon.
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Early on, it attempted to launch Aquila with a hot-air balloon.
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Cox devised a hot-air balloon to lift it up into the sky.
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The camp offers driven safaris, bush walks, and even hot air balloon flights.
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Alfred Nichols, the lone operator of a small hot air balloon company, was piloting a hot air balloon in unsafe weather conditions near Lockhart, Texas, last summer when he struck high-voltage power lines and plunged into a rural field.
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Alfred Nichols, the lone operator of a small hot air balloon company, was piloting a hot air balloon in unsafe weather conditions near Lockhart, Texas, last summer, when he struck high-voltage power lines and plunged into a rural field.
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It's the 21993th century, and their mode of transportation is a hot-air balloon.
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Toxicology tests being conducted Nichols, 33, owned Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides.
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A hot air balloon cruises across the playa at sunrise at Burning Man 2007.
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A hot air balloon cruises across the playa at sunrise at Burning Man 2007.
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Nor is it the pie's burnished brown crust, lofty as a hot-air balloon.
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And all of them were focused on one activity: a hot-air balloon ride.
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In a hot-air balloon, even a quick-thinker like James Bond is adrift.
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Correction: A previous version of this article characterized Explorer II as a hot air balloon.
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That was the world's most fatal hot air balloon accident in at least 20 years.
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According to the study, 78 hot-air balloon tours crashed in that 12-year period.
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Dinah captivates with sultry vocals and lights up the sky in a hot air balloon.
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Like a hot air balloon, but full of vitality and joy instead of heated air.
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As children, they appeared to be standing in the basket of a hot-air balloon.
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Visitors flock to New Mexico for a nine-day hot air balloon festival each fall.
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Later, we'll get on a hot-air balloon and afterward there will be a disco.
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The buxom hot-air balloon was widely condemned when it first appeared five years ago.
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While the crash on Thursday is certainly frightening, hot air balloon crashes are pretty rare.
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Mr. Porter: I got a hot-air balloon for my girlfriend, and she hated it.
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Two families flee communism in a handmade hot-air balloon in this cozily conventional thriller.
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On their last date, Bryan and Rachel take a scenic ride in a hot-air balloon.
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Emergency responders in Texas said the fire hit the basket portion of the hot-air balloon.
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Major News: The 16 victims of a hot-air balloon crash in Texas have been identified.
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The name of the company operating the hot air balloon was not immediately available for comment.
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A woman perches impossibly on the bottom of the basket of an inverted hot air balloon.
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But unlike a hot air balloon, they are closed at the bottom and inflated with helium.
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To that end, Tcheyan pulls out a pair of hot-air balloon earrings featuring Baroque pearls.
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Nine people aboard a hot air balloon experienced a rough landing at about 9:30 a.m.
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When I was done, a hot-air balloon hovered permanently on the wall above turquoise letters.
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The fixes will cost the hot air balloon industry an estimated $272,000, according to the FAA.
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Jennifer Hudson being taken away to heaven in a chandelier attached to a hot air balloon.
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The Sindbad hot air balloon company, whose craft crashed, identified the deceased as an Australian man.
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"The real diapered, hot air balloon…" The tweet came with an image of Avenatti at the protest.
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The spokesman said the balloon probably belonged to a tour group that offers hot-air balloon rides.
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Safety concerns are now being raised following the deadliest hot air balloon accident in United States history.
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After all, how many people are actually going to go up in a damn hot air balloon?
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Basically, a hot air balloon is controlled by burners which heat the air inside the balloon's envelope.
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And the sketchy outline of a hot air balloon on my right breast a little bit more.
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So, naturally, the Swedish patent clerk went on an expedition to get there via hot air balloon.
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So, naturally, the Swedish patent clerk went on an expedition to get there via hot air balloon.
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Also, we almost crashed into a power line flying around in a hot air balloon in Cappadocia.
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In contrast, the power tripper's ego acts like one big hot air balloon: It needs constant refilling.
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And, if you're on a plane, you'll show up in a hot air balloon on the map.
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You're in a hot air balloon, enjoying that crisp Canadian air, when OH GOD WE'RE GOING DOWN.
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They cut to a low angle shot, shooting up into the basket of the hot air balloon.
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Sixteen people, including Nichols, were killed, making it the deadliest hot air balloon crash in U.S. history.
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But once they roll out in the U.S., we totally want to hot air balloon to work.
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But even commuting by hot air balloon won't save you from getting pulled over by the cops.
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So, she agrees to board Micah's hot air balloon and leave the only place she's ever called home.
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A mountaintop post office is visited by a mail delivery hot air balloon docked on a cloudy platform.
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That's right, folks: The state wants you to hunt them from the safety of a hot air balloon.
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The number does not take into account the fatalities from Saturday's hot air balloon accident near Lockhart, Texas.
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To get the best view of the surreal landscape, splurge on a hot air balloon ride at dawn.
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He was listed as an owner and the chief pilot of Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides.
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Collective's full concierge service will arrange winery and brewery tours, agri-culinary classes and hot air balloon rides.
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By 1999, Branson had already made four failed attempts at circling the globe in a hot air balloon.
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A hot air balloon carrying 16 passengers crashed south of Austin, Texas, after catching fire in mid-flight.
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Speaking of big heads, this giant Darth Vader head in the sky is actually a hot air balloon.
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In this case, a research paper published in the peer-reviewed Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine journal entitled "Hot-Air Balloon Tours: Crash Epidemiology in the United States, 2000-2011" analyzed National Transportation Safety Board reports of hot-air balloon tour crashes in the United States from 2000 through 2011.
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And, for an eagle's eye view of the city, hot-air balloon rides are offered year-round, weather permitting.
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The mishap occurred Friday night shortly after the hot air balloon landed in a field, the Ashland Source reported.
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A newlywed couple is among the 16 victims of a deadly a hot air balloon crash near Lockhart, Texas.
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In 2013, 19 people died in a hot air balloon crash in Egypt, near the ancient city of Luxor.
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In 2013, 20143 people died in a hot air balloon crash in Egypt, near the ancient city of Luxor.
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She took a hot air balloon ride, went whale watching and finally enjoyed a view of the Grand Canyon.
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It's not all hot air balloon rides and posing with wild pigs in picturesque waters here, as we know.
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In 20143, 19 people died in a hot air balloon crash in Egypt, near the ancient city of Luxor.
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Sky lanterns, which are sometimes also called Chinese lanterns, are a sort of hot-air balloon made of paper.
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Branson risked his own life to draw attention to Virgin Atlantic , flying a hot air balloon over the Atlantic Ocean.
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A sudden burst of strong winds caused chaos for a few hot air balloon enthusiasts in Chatsworth, Illinois, on Thursday.
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When she took a short trip over Paris in a hot air balloon, the press wrote about it for days.
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Kavanagh works for Kavanagh Balloons in Sydney, a hot air balloon-making business that his parents started in the 1970s.
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On August 3, a hot air balloon carrying nine passengers and two pilots came crashing down around 10:30 a.m.
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The other thing you can't miss is a hot air balloon ride, even if, like me, you're afraid of heights.
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For $350, you can watch the sun rise over the ancient city of Bagan, Myanmar from a hot air balloon.
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The balloon was operated by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides, based in New Braunfels, according to the NTSB.
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The death toll -- 15 passengers and a pilot -- is the worst in U.S. history for a hot air balloon crash.
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When you're 3, the thrill is in how Harold can turn a simple circle into a lifesaving hot-air balloon.
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The balloon was operated by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides, based in New Braunfels, according to the NTSB.
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Travelers also enjoy a hot-air balloon ride and lunch in a private home in Cappadocia and all breakfasts included.
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The No. 1 activity here is taking out a hot-air balloon and seeing it all from an aerial view.
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He created the picture with his trademark CGI-free technique thanks to a model of a hot air balloon from Germany.
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NTSB spokesman Christopher O'Neill said 16 was the maximum number of passengers allowed under federal regulations governing hot air balloon operations.
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On several occasions, the billionaire has got into trouble while trying to travel around the world in a hot air balloon.
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But there are few things quite as epic as floating over a gorgeous expanse of land in a hot air balloon.
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A year earlier, a hot air balloon burst into flames and crashed in New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
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Last night, Texas lawmakers passed House Bill 3535, which allows landowners to hunt down hogs (and coyotes) via hot air balloon.
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It's not the first time that the NTSB has warned the FAA to more closely regulate the hot air balloon industry.
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A hot air balloon went down in flames Saturday and officials say it appears none of the 16 passengers survived the crash.
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Add a stop in pretty Vang Vieng and a hot air balloon ride to one of Insight Guides' suggested Laos itineraries. 3503.
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In the photos, it appears that Hill proposed with a large diamond sparkler after the duo enjoyed a hot air balloon ride.
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Update 2:15 pm: The Associated Press reports that the balloon was operated by the Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides.
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There's no evidence maintenance problems caused the crash of the balloon, owned by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Ride, he said.
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It was the deadliest crash involving a hot air balloon in the Western Hemisphere, according to the Balloon Federation of North America.
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As paranoid as that sounds, it was close to necessary when Branson attempted ocean crossings by hot air balloon with Per Lindstrand.
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But his costs are likely to climb significantly in coming years as he carries out multiple missions in the hot-air balloon.
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Written over 100 years ago with a chase scene involving a hot air balloon that would be great on the big screen.
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They located a basket through the United States Hot Air Balloon Team, and shortly after, they were ready for Hendersen's big moment.
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We bought a hot-air balloon for a piece we were creating, and an oversize spaghetti machine, which we keep in storage.
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The average stay there is $4,000 per night, and extras like hot-air balloon rides over scenic landscapes average about $1,000 per couple.
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A hot air balloon crashed into live power lines before landing in a lake during a balloon festival in Howell, Michigan, on Sunday.
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Click here to view original GIFUnless you're afraid of heights, few would call a ride aboard a hot air balloon a thrilling experience.
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A year before that incident, a hot air balloon burst into flames and crashed in New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
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A hot air balloon crash in central Texas on Saturday appeared to kill all 16 of the balloon's passengers, the Associated Press reports.
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This summer, he's planning to test the pressurized suit from thousands of feet in the air while riding in a hot-air balloon.
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It was the deadliest crash ever involving a hot air balloon in the Western Hemisphere, according to the Balloon Federation of North America.
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Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones star as a duo who search for discoveries while traveling in a hot air balloon in the 1800s.
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When emergency responders arrived, "it was apparent that the reported fire was the basket portion of a hot-air balloon," the statement said.
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A hot air balloon crash-landed in a San Diego neighborhood this week, narrowly missing a set of houses, councilman Mark Kersey tweeted.
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Take your love to new heights in Cappadocia, Turkey, which is known for its surreal landscape and best viewed by hot air balloon.
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When my boyfriend of four-and-a-half years finally proposed in December from a hot-air balloon at sunrise, I was elated.
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It's the Skywhale, a hot-air balloon sculpture, above, by Patricia Piccinini that was widely criticized when it floated over Canberra in 2013.
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Besides, maybe one day that hot air balloon will provide Oz with internet — once Google conquers Earth, it'll necessarily have to look elsewhere.
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Volcanic eruptions, papal visits and the first hot-air balloon flight in Venice were documented by these masters, who often worked for hire.
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The FAA is stepping up oversight of the industry following a hot air balloon crash last month in Texas that killed 16 people.
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He escapes by hot air balloon, and the pair head to Canada as the story takes on the elements of an adventure narrative.
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In an Instagram posted to his co-star's page last week, Harington let his cape billow in the wind like a hot air balloon.
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In 1887, Russian inventor Dmitri Mendeleev took a ride in a hot air balloon to transcend terrestrial challenges (again, clouds) and observe the eclipse.
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The interior designer also partnered with Minted on wall art for Annie's nursery, including a "To the Stars" piece featuring a hot-air balloon.
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Not counting Saturday's incident, there have been 60 hot air balloon crashes in the United States since 2011, leading to seven deaths, Sumwalt said.
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Brian surprised Tessie with "a trip to watch the sunrise by hot air balloon" for their wedding anniversary, according to the fund-raising page.
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Mr. Fossett, an American businessman-cum-adventurer, became the first person to complete a solo hot-air balloon flight around the world in 2002.
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The hot air balloon ride was a gift to the San Antonio, Texas couple who wed in February, Matt's brother, Joshua Rowan, tells PEOPLE.
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New mom Paige Brabson was treating her mom, Lorilee Brabson, to the trip in a hot air balloon as a belated Mother's Day present.
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Trump has not called for discriminating against hot air balloon enthusiasts or a war on exploding nightwear, because that would be self-evidently ridiculous.
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Alfred "Skip" Nichols was operating a hot air balloon near Lockhart, Texas, last summer, when he struck power lines and crashed in a field.
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A poet I saw at a party the next night remarked that a hot air balloon was a good metaphor for being a novelist.
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This service includes UberBalloon, meaning the next ride you request could be, yes, a hot air balloon; and UberBoat, for snagging a boat ride.
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Moments later I was told we could move to a balcony room, which made my spirit soar as swiftly as a hot-air balloon.
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This 2016 documentary tells the story behind the billionaire's attempt to break world records crossing the Atlantic and Pacific in a hot air balloon.
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She was a French aeronaut and daredevil pilot who died in 1819 after she launched a firework that blew up her hot air balloon.
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An "experienced balloonist" was attempting to land when the hot air balloon grazed a tree, tipping the basket, the event committee told CNN affiliate KHQA.
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It recommended greater oversight of the hot air balloon industry, saying it was concerned about the potential for great loss of life without more regulation.
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Over the decades it has become one of New Mexico's signature events, beloved by a coterie of hot air balloon enthusiasts, locals and visitors alike.
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The accident occurred about three years after 19 people, mostly Asian and European tourists, were killed in a hot air balloon crash in Luxor, Egypt.
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" Lirette, the ground crew supervisor for the balloon operator, Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides, described Nichols as his "best friend, boss and roommate.
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In 1785, just two years after the invention of the hot air balloon, two English lords at a popular London gentleman's club made a bet.
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In 1911 and 1912, an Austrian physicist named Victor Hess took to the sky in a series of risky hot-air balloon trips—for science.
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You know, up in a hot air balloon all by himself is EXACTLY how I didn't know I was already picturing 2Pats spending his summer.
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The sheep that roam the grounds, a hot air balloon representing an annual festival and several eyes come to life in a rainbow of colors.
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On Wednesday, the Texas legislature passed a bill that would legalize feral hog and coyote hunting from a hot air balloon, the Associated Press reports.
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The accident occurred about three years after 19 people, mostly Asian and European tourists, were killed in a hot-air balloon crash in Luxor, Egypt.
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Mr. Komza depressed a lever on a gas valve, sending a fearsome jet of propane-fueled flame into the 2000-foot-tall hot-air balloon.
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In 1975, for a diversion from his law studies at Boston University, David Levin hopped aboard a hot-air balloon and took a little ride.
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"A period-accurate balloon of this type, not a hot air balloon but one filled with helium, had not been built in decades," Lieberman explained.
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Love swoops into the wicker gondola of a hot-air balloon over late-19th-century Paris, where the Eiffel Tower is about to take shape.
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When they ask if they can rig the camera to a motorcycle, a hot-air balloon or a ski lift, we say yes every time.
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When Paige Brabson learned that her mom Lorilee Brabson wanted to take a hot air balloon trip, she made the arrangements as a Mother's Day present.
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The cover features two little girls in a hot-air balloon who look very similar to Jenna's daughters: Poppy Louise, 3, and Margaret "Mila" Laura, 5½.
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In a statement on its Facebook page, Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides expressed condolences over those killed in the crash and said it was suspending operations.
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CARDIFF, Wales — Lin-Manuel Miranda sat patiently in a shabby, capacious hot-air balloon, as a technician checked the lighting on a stuffed bird poised overhead.
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The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is on from October 6-14 — be there or be square, which is a bad shape for a hot air balloon.
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Hot-Air Balloon Ride with Globo San Miguel: When the opportunity to hover thousands of feet above a beautiful and meaningful landscape presents itself, take it.
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" The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level.
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"Go on fruit picking trips, outdoor movies, family photo shoots, water parks, or even a hot air balloon if that's allowed for [a baby so young]."
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Branson had to make thousands of choices as he approached founding the Virgin Group, including whether to fly a hot air balloon across the Atlantic Ocean.
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"Yesterday, the beloved mother of my daughter, Paige Brabson and her mother, Lorilee Brabson, both passed away in a tragic hot air balloon accident," Monterrosa wrote.
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According to state representative Mark Keough—who sponsored the hot air balloon bill—the vehicle offers a quieter, more stable platform from which gunmen can shoot.
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" Alan Lirette, the ground crew supervisor for the balloon operator, Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides, described Nichols as his "best friend, boss and roommate.
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From crossing the Pacific Ocean in a hot air balloon to setting various world records, it's hard not to associate adventure with billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson.
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In an English city far, far away, a massive hot air balloon shaped like Star Wars villain Darth Vader's head floated in the air on Thursday.
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The F90 selection has been smartly curated to encourage the proverbial impulse buy, provided your rainy-day budget is as big as a hot-air balloon.
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A hot air balloon enthusiast founded Rusbal in 1993 and later diversified into the inflatable children's attractions that are springy play areas known as bouncy castles.
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Paying for that meant forgoing activities — there was no hot air balloon ride in Jaipur — and downgrading to budget-friendly hotels for part of the trip.
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The English Channel has been crossed in many innovative ways over the years -- including by hovercraft, hot air balloon, monoski, gondola, pedalo and glider and parachute.
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Temecula, California, is considered an under-the-radar version of Napa Valley, and its wineries and hot-air balloon tours make it an ideal weekend destination.
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Leo Aerospace thinks it can help with a launch technique that's more efficient and requires far less infrastructure than an ordinary rocket: a hot air balloon.
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A House Democrat is urging the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to crack down on hot air balloon operations following a deadly crash in Texas last year.
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Advertisements for the "Greatest Performing Elephant in the World," hot air balloon flights, levitation, mesmerism, and "modern witchery" mingle in a vibrant Victorian entertainment time capsule.
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From skimpy bathing suits to an outlandish hot air balloon ride, Upton and Daddario bring on the laughs and the pratfalls as their characters duke it out.
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The art form dates to 1858, when Gaspard-Félix Tournachon photographed the rooftops and boulevards of Paris from a hot air balloon 1,600 feet above the city.
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The team managed to break the record in 1986, before Branson tried but failed to cross the same ocean in a hot-air balloon a year later.
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Image: APAt least 16 people are dead after a hot air balloon caught on fire and crashed into a pasture in Texas, according to the Associated Press.
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"It is with extraordinarily heavy hearts that we announce the suspension of operations at Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides," the company said on its website.
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A source with the Texas Department of Public Safety earlier told CNN's Polo Sandoval that investigators believe the hot air balloon struck power lines and caught fire.
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Bristol, UK (CNN)Take a ride in a hot air balloon with the Royal Engineers as they float over Bristol in Europe's largest hot air ballooning event.
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Shortly after Brown arrived at training camp Friday in Napa Valley in a hot air balloon, he was placed on the NFI list with an undisclosed injury.
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At some point, I think it was Sean Lowe's season, he was going up in a hot air balloon with — I forget her name now — Brit maybe?
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Pursuits Away from the skyscraper-dominated megalopolis of urban Dubai, an outing aboard a hot-air balloon offers participants a bird's-eye view of a falcon's realm.
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Madden has a gift for salient detail, as in a poignant scene in which her mother surprises her acrophobic father with a birthday hot-air-balloon ride.
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Reporters were fascinated with rumors of her exotic menagerie, the satin-lined coffin in her bedroom, her ride in a hot-air balloon, her adventurous world tours.
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Wouterson coached Sanne Haarhuis, a pilot in hot-air balloon competitions, to regulate her sleeping pattern and endure heavy, multi-day races with a minimum of sleep.
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The city is also known for its hot-air balloon tours, according to TripAdvisor, which are a picturesque way to see the city on a weekend trip.
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The rotocopter comes after years of studying alternative concepts for studying Titan, such as a conventional orbiter or lander, a hot-air balloon and even a boat.
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Richard Branson isn't always flying across the Atlantic Ocean in a hot air balloon, kite-surfing on the English Channel, or running one of his many business ventures.
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Forgoing the early morning hot air balloon flights, heritage tours with Navajo guides, horseback riding and kayaking options, they chose the most adventurous, vertigo-inducing activities on offer.
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On December 17th, 1903, in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, the Wright brothers made the first crewed, powered flight in an aircraft that wasn't a hot air balloon.
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Unfortunately, it's one of the worst songs I've ever heard, and the video is just a bunch of examples of how not to use a hot-air balloon.
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The hot air balloon ride, which turned deadly after the balloon crashed into power lines on Saturday, was a birthday gift from Sunday to her husband, Jones said.
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There's been this dream of humanity for thousands of thousands of years, when we figure it out in 1783 with the hot air balloon and the Montgolfier brothers.
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This week, Loon (the company's bid to spread internet connectivity via hot-air balloon) and Wing (its autonomous-drone-delivery effort) spin off to become their own entities.
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Almeter, a worker for a local hot air balloon company, was pronounced dead at the scene in Nunda, which is about 50 miles southeast of Buffalo, O'Donnell said.
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A few hours of sleepy murmuring later, Ben and Amanda are high in the sky, trapped in the hot air balloon that is both their transportation and conversation.
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The massive warm rock can be compared to a slow-moving hot air balloon, according to Levin, who compares the process to the movement of a lava lamp.
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What they see in the center of an open field is a grounded hot-air balloon threatening to take off with a young boy trapped in the basket.
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The ship's bevy of polar toys, including hovercrafts, electric snowmobiles and a tethered hot air balloon, give guests a privileged vantage point of Antarctica's indelible and fragile beauty.
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The NTSB also highlighted the FAA's lack of oversight of potentially risky commercial balloon operations, noting it only has a voluntary standards program for hot air balloon operators.
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Then, at the end of all the singing, Judi Dench will decide which of these cats has earned the right to be executed in a hot-air balloon.
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Have you ever had difficulty navigating a hot air balloon, and is it easier to get permission to fly over with a helicopter as opposed to a drone?
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Look, it's true there's not a lot of traffic up there besides the flying monkeys and the hot air balloon, and it's also true that flying is cool.
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In this Season 13 finale, Stan (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) and Francine (Wendy Schaal) try to save their marriage but wind up trapped on a hot-air balloon.
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Each lithe melody is like a hit of fuel in a hot air balloon, pushing his pieces further into the low-oxygen zones in between crust and space.
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A hot air balloon carried Cordia and his improvised Iron Man suit to an altitude of 5,000 feet before he stepped off the edge and ignited the jet engines.
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Of course on the ground level, one finds treasures like Abbas Akhavan's Envelope, 2017, which fills one of the foundation's courtyard with a river of deflated hot air balloon.
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Including part-time pilots and full-time professionals, the Balloon Federation of America estimates there are somewhere between 150 and 200 commercial hot air balloon operators across North America.
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The name of the company involved in the crash is Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides, an official with direct knowledge of the investigation told CNN's Rene Marsh.
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The highest number of deaths in a single hot air balloon crash in the country before Saturday was six, in a 1993 accident in Colorado, according to the NTSB.
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That's when the physicist Victor Hess took a ride on a hot air balloon and discovered the amount of radiation in the atmosphere increases the higher up you go.
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After a hot air balloon ride at dawn, the two spent the evening hanging out in Bryan's hotel room, where he gifted her with an adorable homemade Spanish dictionary.
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Considering hot air balloon tours over wine country cost a bit more than movie and a slice of pizza, the data may need to be a little more specific.
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Grosof said the balloon was believed to have been operated by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides, a company that serves the Austin, Houston and San Antonio areas.
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Concerned that the raccoon had become trapped, Twitter users called for a host of inventive solutions, including sending up a hot air balloon to take the raccoon to safety.
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So it's not necessarily surprising that they decided to send the Polish DJ Magda (real name Magdalena Chojnacka) up in a hot air balloon with a 360° video camera.
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This week's travel diary: A 2229-year-old digital marketing specialist from Singapore checks "hot air balloon ride" off her bucket list in a multi-city tour of Myanmar.
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This presumably would have tricked tourists with no yearning for "Titus Andronicus" or Pina Bausch into believing they were going somewhere with hot-air balloon rides and rum smoothies.
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Perhaps started by an errant paper hot air balloon landing on the roof or a short circuit in a laboratory, the fire gutted the historic 200-year-old building.
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Lloyd DoggettLloyd Alton DoggettHere are the 95 Democrats who voted to support impeachment Speaker Pelosi, seize the moment to make history on drug pricing House Democrats sue Treasury to turn over Trump tax returns MORE (D-Texas), who represents the district where the crash occurred, has been pushing the FAA to strengthen its hot air balloon laws and require that pilots get medical certificates before they are allowed to operate a hot air balloon.
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What began as an apprenticeship of convenience—little Wash was the right size to join Titch in his "Cloud-cutter", or hot-air balloon—evolves into a kind of friendship.
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He said a hot air balloon owned by the Texas company but operated by a different pilot had been involved in a hard landing in a soccer field in 2014.
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The pilot of the downed Texas hot air balloon has been identified as Alfred "Skip" Nichols, a 49-year-old with a lengthy arrest record, according to the Associated Press.
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And a single person who knew what they were doing, and had enough plant fibers to spin burlap, could have a hot air balloon at any point in human history.
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In the film, wealthy widow Amelia Wren (Jones) and scientist James Glaisher (Redmayne) set out to fly a hot air balloon higher than anyone in history — despite the mounting dangers.
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It's a beautiful, fake paradise—boasting the highest water slide in Germany, mini-golf, hot-air balloon trips, real-life flamingos, and even a fake Hindu temple—for some reason.
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It was shot in and around Mexico City with Towkio dancing on top of pyramids, rapping in a hot air balloon, and hanging out the side of imported sports cars.
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He's also known for his sporting challenges – from his world record-setting Atlantic hot air balloon crossing in 1987 to the Virgin Strive series of triathlons in Italy last September.
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During the city's recent hot air balloon festival, Quintana says she lost count of the number of people who came to the house, but noted it was in the hundreds.
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Gannett's first show features three segments with adventure and travel experiences such as the landing of an F18 carrier and the annual hot air balloon festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Wired explained it quite well:If you could just see the water from a stationary reference frame (maybe a floating hot air balloon), you would see the water indeed falling down.
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Hot air balloon crash It's a tragedy almost too horrible to comprehend: Sixteen people, out for a breezy balloon ride on a sunny summer morning, killed in a fiery crash.
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Mr. Piccard, a Swiss psychiatrist who completed the first circumnavigation by hot air balloon, and Mr. Borschberg, a Swiss businessman and pilot, created the team behind the Solar Impulse airplane.
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"The Darth Vader special shape hot air balloon was built in Bristol by Cameron Balloons but has never flown in this fine city," the organizers said on crowdfunding website FundSurfer.
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The NTSB is recommending that the FAA no longer exempt hot air balloon pilots from medical certification requirements and reevaluate its policies for conducting oversight of commercial balloon operations. Rep.
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A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers unveiled legislation on Monday designed to make hot air balloon operations safer in the wake of a deadly crash in Texas last year. Reps.
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Mostel, who used musical scales as his themes, produces such disparate effects as the gentle soar of the elephant couple's hot-air balloon and the loud eruption of their squeals.
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"The Aeronauts" reunites Felicity Jones and Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne as pilot Amelia Wren and real-life scientist James Glaisher in their hot-air balloon expedition to reach unrivaled heights.
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The 26-year-old actor told Glamour that the " grandest romantic gesture" he's ever done for his girlfriend and "Riverdale" co-star Lili Reinhart, 22, involved a hot-air balloon.
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Her first appearance is in 2012 in Batgirl #9, where we learn Strix's entire family was killed when a Japanese hot air balloon holding bombs went off in her town.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is coming under increasing pressure to crack down on hot air balloon operations after federal investigators blamed lax regulations for a deadly crash last year.
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"Because the FAA has failed to act, I am taking action to ensure no more families risk injury or death from unsafe hot-air balloon pilots," Doggett said a statement.
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The time he decided to teach himself to pilot a hot-air balloon, bought a used one from Craigslist, and spent a month on crutches after crashing it in the desert.
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"Today would have been my husband Dave Goldberg's 49th birthday," the Facebook COO and Lean In author captioned a photo of the couple aboard a hot air balloon on Sunday morning.
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On Saturday, Josh Rowan delighted in seeing his social media feed fill up with smiling photos of his brother Matt and new sister-in-law Sunday's sunrise hot air balloon ride.
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If training your mini-monsters gets too tiring, why not take some time out to get a haircut, rearrange your furniture, or go for a ride in a hot-air balloon?
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When he died, by holding on too long to the rope of a hot-air balloon that shot up too fast, he had been on the firm, dull ground, getting ready.
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The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board two years ago recommended greater oversight of the hot air balloon industry, said Robert Sumwalt, who is heading the federal agency's investigation of the accident.
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Across the hall, Lu's face reappears at monumental scale, as an enormous hot air balloon, her large eyes replaced with red LED lights, filling the darkened gallery with a pink glow.
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He left school at 16 to start a magazine, tried to circle the globe in a hot air balloon and is now expecting to go to space by April of 2018.
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Jones plays pilot Amelia Wren and Redmayne is scientist James Glaisher and the two fight to survive as they attempt to make historic discoveries while traveling in a hot air balloon.
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Federal investigators said that a government policy allowing commercial air balloon pilots not to get medical certificates likely played a role in last year's deadly hot air balloon crash in Texas.
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Cheers to Sharon Bolton for the clever opening scene in DEAD WOMAN WALKING (Minotaur, $25.99), which takes place in a hot-air balloon flying over the moorlands of England's far north.
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A now-deleted Facebook post shared with BuzzFeed News, however, said that Dorsey took a Myanmar government–arranged hot air balloon ride during his more than 10-day stay in the country.
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The last time a hot air balloon crash was so fatal was in 2013, when a balloon caught fire over Luxor, Egypt and crashed into a field, killing at least 19 tourists.
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There are a lot of great ways to celebrate an anniversary, like taking a hot-air balloon ride, having a friends and family barbecue or maybe even going on a Hawaiian vacation.
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Imagine what your heart would be doing if you rode a swing suspended from a 400-foot-long tether hanging beneath a hot air balloon floating over 5,900 feet in the air.
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A now-deleted Facebook post shared with BuzzFeed News, however, says that Dorsey took a Burmese government-arranged hot air balloon ride during his more than 10-day stay in the country.
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The crash comes two years after the National Transportation Safety Board recommended greater oversight of the hot air balloon industry, said Robert Sumwalt, who is heading the NTSB's investigation of the accident.
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As a result, DHS didn't send a team to protect the NCAA Final Four college basketball championship in April or to the annual hot air balloon festival in Albuquerque late last year.
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"Little Italy reminds me of my dad," he said, referring to Rocky Aoki, the founder of the Benihana chain, a speedboat racer and a hot-air balloon pilot who died in 2008.
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"Like, if there was a hot-air balloon that was rising and you needed to try and keep it on the ground, he would be better than me at that," he added.
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When the hot-air balloon debuted in May 2013, looming over Canberra for the Australian capital's centenary celebrations, critics said the "floating sculpture" created by Patricia Piccinini did not represent the city.
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The photos stopped coming when the hot air balloon the couple was riding over Lockhart, Texas collided with high-tension power lines, causing it to burst into flames and crash into a pasture.
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In that particular location, Rogers led the construction of 13 installations between 2007 and 2011 as part of a massive land art park, ideally suited to the area's popular hot air balloon tourism.
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"I have been planning to propose for a while and I knew I wanted to do something romantic, so I originally thought about popping the question in a hot air balloon," he said.
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A giant Yoda hot air balloon flew outside of the California State Capitol on Thursday, and people dressed up as stormtroopers walked around the building, according to a tweet from Senator Pat Bates.
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Inside the gates, past the check-in area and robust security, a gigantic replica of Fortnite's ocean-blue Battle Bus, with its hot air balloon propulsion system, sat openly out on the pavement.
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He had his arms around me on the hot air balloon and I'm thinking that there could be no more perfect moment but part of me was still wondering how to handle Peter.
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Also discovered were a nylon rope and a catalogue indicating how to purchase a hot-air balloon, objects that made officers believe he might have been planning a prison escape, the paper reports.
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Replying to a question at a news conference, Mr. Grosof said it was his "understanding" that the balloon tour was run by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides, based in New Braunfels.
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At any rate, the way they presented that was, they show you a giant wide shot of a hot air balloon too far away for you to see who's actually in the basket.
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Each reveals a new way of seeing and understanding our world, in the same way the Eiffel Tower or the hot air balloon changed how artists and photography pioneers understood the Earth's topography.
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Horse-drawn carriages are an excellent old form of transportation, though this appears to be a slower way of traversing Oz than flying, being carried by a tornado, or a hot air balloon.
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There, we climbed inside a hot-air balloon and as the sun started to rise, we soared over Teotihuacan's two large pyramids, the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon.
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Joe Biden is basically a hot air balloon that it would drop like a rock if it wasn't for a hazy illusion that's being perpetrated on us all by a few rich Obama donors.
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The time between the bottom of one mountain and the top of another mountain or a hot air balloon basket somewhere in between is only limited by how fast you can work the menu.
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Texas state police confirmed that 16 people died on Saturday in the crash of a hot-air balloon, which eyewitnesses said struck power transmission lines and burst into flames before plunging into a pasture.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A hot-air balloon, hit by a surprise weather change, crash-landed on Thursday in a field near Australia's southern city of Melbourne, injuring at least seven tourists on board, officials said.
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Floating in a hot-air balloon over Petit-Bicêtre, a village near Paris, he captured a bucolic scene from the sky and brought it down to earth in the form of a permanent print.
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Texans are just one signature away from being able to load up a rifle, hop in a hot air balloon, and rain down a torrential hellfire of bullets on the state's feral hog population.
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"From apple orchard to Big Apple," read the caption beneath a photo of a young woman sitting in an orchard, with a giant red apple suspended above her head like a hot-air balloon.
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After landing in Napa, California, on a hot-air balloon to begin his career as an Oakland Raider, Brown was forced to hold back during his first few practices because of a foot injury.
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An article on Wednesday about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on countries with vulnerable economies referred incorrectly to the co-owner of a hot-air balloon company in the Cappadocia region of Turkey.
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Jones stars as balloon pilot Amelia Wren, who teams up with Redmayne as meteorologist James Glaisher, aiming to advance our measly human knowledge of the weather using a hot air balloon as a vessel.
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It's remarkably close in principle to an ordinary recreational hot-air balloon, but with the slight difference that it has to fly up to 18 kilometers of altitude and carry a rocket with it.
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Other cotton-candy-and-soft-serve options include the Baymax, a white creature that resembles the Abominable Snowman, and the Air Balloon, a hot-air balloon fashioned with the help of Pocky biscuit sticks.
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He's also persuaded aeroplane companies, hot air balloon owners, and paragliders to fling the balls, and sells some to corporations, who distribute them to customers and staff as part of corporate social responsibility campaigns.
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Even when they become fantastic, like a hot air balloon taking off, a deer peeking over the roof of a building, a boy with curling antlers, or a circus scene, there's a quiet kindness.
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The solar-powered kite, which functions like a hot-air balloon, muses on the impact of air travel on climate change, presenting a futuristic sustainable solution that addresses the universal human desire to fly.
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In March 2017, they were in Southern Africa visiting his family when he surprised her with a hot-air balloon ride over the sand dunes of Soussesvlei, in the middle of the Namib desert.
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"The upwelling we detected is like a hot-air balloon, and we infer that something is rising up through the deeper part of our planet under New England," says Rutgers University geophysicist Professor Vadim Levin .
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Power was cut until the balloon could be freed from power lines Gratiot County Sheriff Michael Morris said in a statement that a white hot air balloon also was discovered tangled up in some trees.
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Image: GettyIn a move just short of self-parody, Uber has announced a new feature that will let certain users request a hot air balloon or boat—you know, for that casual commute to work.
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Last summer, she made a splash by flying "The Skywhale" — a 100-foot-long whale-shaped hot air balloon with huge udders in the place of wings — above the Galway International Arts Festival in Ireland.
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Some had instructions to hand off a box to a stranger, creating unexpected interactions, others contained playful assemblies of objects, like one marked "balloons" that had an inflated balloon and a model hot air balloon.
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John Asselin, a spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management Southern Nevada District, earlier said there was a hot air balloon crash north of Goodsprings, and multiple agencies including the FAA had officials on scene.
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A Georgia woman is accused of faking terminal cancer and allegedly collected cash donations, a trip to New Orleans, a fishing charter and a hot air balloon ride – more than $25,000 worth of goodwill, PEOPLE confirms.
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Maxwell, Texas (CNN)Evidence shows a pilot may have been trying to land when a hot air balloon crashed over the weekend in Texas and killed all 16 people on board, an NTSB official said Monday.
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My favorite shirt at the time was found in a garbage can at the intersection of Farwell and Pleasant, a turquoise sweatshirt with an appliqué of a dog and rabbit in a hot-air-balloon basket.
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If riding in a hot air balloon while watching sunrise 4,000 feet over a desert sounds appealing, check out the Platinum Heritage Luxury Tours and Safari, an award-winning outfitter of desert adventures outside of Dubai.
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The poems in "Ommateum" suggest that the imagination can be outfitted to do the work of a sextant, a microscope, or a hot-air balloon, depending on where the interesting action happens in any one process.
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Is it the publicist who says Taylor Swift want to meet you but she wants to do it in a hot air balloon, or does the editor say this is how I want to do it?
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Instead, the movie ends on a shot of Lyra and her soon-to-be-murdered friend floating serenely toward Lord Asriel in a hot air balloon, secure in their mutual certainty that Asriel will fix everything.
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I think Joan, the kids and my parents might have been happy if I had found a way not to fly the world's biggest-ever hot air balloon in a jet stream across the Atlantic Ocean.
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She also received signed letters from members of the Atlanta Braves, went skydiving, went fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, rode in a hot air balloon and took a free trip to New Orleans, the AP reports.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - At least 16 people were feared dead after a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in a pasture near the central Texas city of Lockhart on Saturday, according to federal and local authorities.
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One of Corsan's jumps, which will take place in the U.S. and Canada, will involve him leaping from a height of around 42,000 feet (12,2007 metres) from a hot air balloon - shattering the existing record of 37,000ft.
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I see a world with VR dates to virtual mountains, boardwalks, skyscrapers, hot air balloon rides (I took one — don't do it if you get motion sick), and anywhere else you and your significant other can imagine.
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""Like, if there was a hot-air balloon that was rising and you needed to try and keep it on the ground, he would be better than me at that," Yang said, "because he is so fat.
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Black Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan expanded the possibilities of the antebellum novel with "Washington Black," an epic adventure that begins with an 11-year-old slave boy's escape from a Barbados sugar plantation -- by hot-air balloon!
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LONDON — It has been billed as "the world's tallest moving observation tower," a futuristic 531-foot-high structure that will give visitors an experience that one of its creators likened to floating in a hot-air balloon.
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Finally, determined to blow a hole in the Trump hot air balloon, the columnist hits hard: The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles.
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According to an interactive map of her work, Montague also painted a hot air balloon mural in Nashville, along with sets of wings in Miami; Boulder; Chicago; Detroit; Scottsdale, Arizona; Raleigh, North Carolina; and lots of other locations.
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U.S. safety investigators in central Texas began gathering evidence on Sunday into what caused the crash of a hot air balloon that killed 16 people after it hit a power line and plummeted to the ground in flames.
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In the video that was shot in New Mexico ("Aerocene, launches at White Sands, NM, United States," 2016), a buoyant Team Saraceno arrives at sunrise to inflate (via a stationary bicycle) a majestic, partially black hot air balloon.
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Kyle, Texas (CNN)Part of the hot air balloon that crashed in Texas hit power lines when it went down, an NTSB spokesman said Sunday after investigators arrived at the accident scene in dusty pastureland south of Austin.
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Grace seems resigned to her May-December fate, but complications arise like a lurching hot air balloon when Grace meets a disguised Charles, and Sir Harcourt falls for the irrepressible and very married Lady Gay Spanker (Rachel Pickup).
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The Amazon Studios movie centers on real-life 19th century meteorologist and hot-air balloon enthusiast James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) and a fictional ballooner named Amelia Wren (played by his The Theory of Everything co-star Felicity Jones).
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Or Town and Country's roundup of gifts for "the impossible-to-shop-for person on your list," featuring a hot-air balloon over Mount Everest ($5,950,000 per person) and V.I.P. tours of Disney World (from $425 per hour).
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The bad news is that it's currently only available in China, because ride-sharing competition in China is heating up with the popularity of rival Didi Chuxing, and desperate times call for the on-demand hot-air balloon economy.
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Jack Dorsey Took A Government-Organized Hot Air Balloon Ride In Myanmar It wouldn't be a proper end of 2018 post unless we had an update on the never-ending Veep episode that has been Jack Dorsey's world travels.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The company whose hot air balloon crashed in central Texas on Saturday, killing 16 people including its owner, said on Monday it was suspending operations following one of the deadliest balloon accidents on record.
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Michelle Obama's photo was simple, a muted landscape shot that featured her husband off to the side, wearing a baseball hat, with wide-open space behind him and what appears to be a hot air balloon in the distance.
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A true-life tale of how two families narrowly escaped from communist East Germany in 1979 in a homemade hot-air balloon, the movie adopts a path so dramatically familiar we can almost predict each twist and fake-out.
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Self-made billionaire Richard Branson says his ability to cross the Pacific Ocean in a hot air balloon and pursue his dream of traveling to space by starting a commercial spaceflight company comes from being a forward-thinking leader.
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A former hot-air balloon factory (the open roof has since been glassed-over) and, later, once the director Luc Besson's studio, the site of the new "social sports club" La Montgolfière is unique in both design and concept.
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The former head of the NTSB, Chairman Deborah Hersman, urged the FAA in 2014 to address "operational deficiencies" in hot air balloon activities after several incidents resulted in injuries and one death, according to a letter published on the NTSB's website.
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SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - U.S. safety investigators in central Texas began gathering evidence on Sunday into what caused the crash of a hot air balloon that killed 16 people after it hit a power line and plummeted to the ground in flames.
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But unlike the 130-plus hot air balloons that show up at the event, this particular Darth Vader hot air balloon, which was made in Bristol and has flown in cities around the world, never flew in its hometown until now.
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The Bachelor and The Bachelorette deal in a very specific kind of drug: pure romantic fantasy, laced with occasional spikes of drama to keep things interesting outside the sweeping hot air balloon rides and tearjerking breakup stories over candlelit rose petals.
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Considered an outsider artist, the self-taught Dellschau focused solely on mechanics in his early works — hot air balloon-like vessels with quirky accoutrements like paddles, wheels, and pulleys are shown with great detail, at times with lengthy explanatory annotations.
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"We believe that the hot air balloon had come in to make a landing," Dean told KVVU, saying that the balloon was "not very high" off the ground when two people were thrown from the basket when it tipped over.
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In 2016, they took grandson Owen Dietrich on a Broadway theater immersion in New York City; two years later, they took grandson James Behnke on an adventurous romp through Colorado, complete with white water rafting and a hot-air balloon ride.
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Hot air balloon trips have the same downsides as the other methods of flying portrayed in the movie: risks to the traveler should something go wrong, risks to the people below, as well as an apparent lack of air traffic control.
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For the two pilots, landing back where they started is only "the beginning of the continuation" of a longer journey, said Piccard, who in 1999 became the first person to circumnavigate the globe non-stop in a hot air balloon.
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After Meg and Kate peacock for Ryan in a hot-air balloon and a diving competition, they hit the road, where the movie's notion of fun comes to involve an unclean rest stop, slipped pills and an eminently foreseeable conclusion.
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At one point, during the siege of Paris at the end of the Franco-Prussian War, in 1871, Lilliet flees the city in a hot-air balloon launched from the roof of the Paris Opera by one of her lovers.
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These deals may include getting 30 percent off regular room rates for booking early, discounts for stays longer than five nights and add-ins such as a hot-air balloon ride at sunrise if you are celebrating a special occasion.
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Taylor had just left Google and was working at Benchmark alongside Nirav Tolia, who later started Nextdoor, Mike Cassidy, who went on to lead Google's hot air balloon project called Loon, and the late Dave Goldberg, who became CEO of SurveyMonkey.
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Coming up: "The Aeronauts," starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as hot air balloon adventurers, and "Late Night," a comedy starring Emma Thompson as a late-night talk-show host who hires her only female staff writer, played by Mindy Kaling.
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And they have become regulars at Sunday afternoon matches at the Greenwich Polo Club, where families bring picnic baskets and blankets, and at the Greenwich Land Trust's annual family field day, which has hot-air balloon rides and a petting zoo.
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The balloon, flown by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides chief pilot and owner Alfred "Skip" Nichols, hit a power line and plummeted in flames into a pasture near Lockhart, about 30 miles (50 km) south of the state capital Austin.
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This week, Matoke Tours, a niche African travel operator, launched a virtual travel brochure: an app featuring 360degree videos of six experiences in Uganda, where users will come face-to-face with a gorilla or go up in a hot air balloon.
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Programs from Facebook and Google could make the crazy idea of getting internet access via a hot air balloon or lasers shot from a drone a reality, but how about going online via a network of Wi-Fi-connected taxis in your city.
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On the homepage, you can click on the words—which are the title for the ongoing four-year, four-part Mauve Bird project—inside various images of rehearsals / performances / found objects / references, inside animated shapes based on my hot-air-balloon drawings.
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LOCKHART, Texas (Reuters) - A hot air balloon burst into flames over central Texas on Saturday after apparently striking power lines and plunged into a field, killing all 16 people aboard in one of the deadliest such accidents on record, police and eyewitnesses said.
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Houellebecq told me that a series of aerial photographs of apartment blocks from the Avallon suburbs was shot from a hot air balloon, which he enjoyed riding in because it was possible to stop in the air and maintain a constant altitude.
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SAN ANTONIO, July 31 (Reuters) - U.S. safety officials arrived in Texas on Sunday to probe the crash of a hot air balloon that killed 16 people, amid reports that it hit a power line and caught fire before plummeting to the ground.
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To reach such great heights, Auguste first created the pressurized cabin, an invention that, along with a stratospheric hot air balloon, afforded him the opportunity to be the first person to see the curvature of the earth, plotting a course for modern aviation.
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With the app, Ms. Bashir said, travelers can get ideas by viewing pictures, then book basic activities like walking tours and museum visits as well as more exotic activities, such as a hot-air balloon ride, sky diving or touring monasteries in Greece.
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You could, for example, present your beloveds with 22-karat gold rolling papers ($1.73), a hot air balloon lift to the summit of Mt. Everest ($21.7 million), or a disappointingly attainable subscription to a loofah-of-the-month club ($270 a month).
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And, to be fair, the 12 designs he created are more playful than just a spiral for the sake of the 3D effect — they still create the optical illusion but some incorporate recognizable features, like a Japanese koi fish and a hot air balloon.
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I feel sorry for people who do not live in apartment buildings and cannot terminate relationships with the finality of the chute, who never get to experience the whole satisfying slam thunk of the metal door and the drop: Hot-air balloon instruction manual.
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The experiment will involve sending a hot-air balloon some 20 kilometers up above the Arizona desert and releasing a substance, likely calcium carbonate (a very common chemical compound, the primary ingredient in both Tums and eggshells), and measuring its effects on the atmosphere.
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Federal investigators determined this week that the 2016 crash, which was the deadliest hot air balloon crash in U.S. history, was caused by the pilot's poor decisionmaking, his medical conditions and medications, and a lack of federal oversight over commercial air balloon operations. Rep.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Federal regulation of hot air balloon operators needs to be more in line with oversight of the airline industry, a U.S. safety official said on Monday during a briefing on a crash in Texas that ranked as the worst in North American ballooning history.
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The misadventures of Paddington 2 range from silly and slapstick-y (Paddington accidentally shaves off a guy's hair) to whimsical and Wes Anderson-y (there's a sequence involving a makeshift hot-air balloon) to laugh-out-loud funny (we'll leave those surprises for you to discover).
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So he came up with a "303 for 30" plan: To celebrate the milestone, he and Dallan would complete 30 activities in six weeks, doing everything from floating in a hot-air balloon to riding their favorite roller coasters and spending a day at the zoo.
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In one sequence of archive footage, Rocky skillfully lands a hot air balloon that has frozen in the stratosphere—just one instance of him casually avoiding certain death—not to mention a phenomenally bad-ass move that anyone's child would struggle to escape the shadow of.
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It's not hard to see why: Rocky was a larger-than-life individual, both an accomplished businessman and daredevil (he held a world record for longest hot air balloon ride), who once said in a televised interview that family was only his third priority in life.
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Photos shared with loved ones and on social media captured the group's final moments before the balloon, operated by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides, hit a high tension power line and burst into flames, its charred remnants landing in a pasture in Lockhart, Texas.
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Citing his anti-nuclear protests going back to the 1970s—including piloting a Greenpeace hot-air balloon over government sites in Nevada to stop imminent tests, and numerous instances of arrests and beatdowns by authorities while demonstrating at various facilities—Stilp insists he's been through worse.
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They customize their own characters, and then do things like run through obstacle courses, build the roller coaster of their dreams, pretend to be a superhero, ride a hot air balloon to a castle in the sky, go scuba diving, run a pizza parlor, and much more.
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In the 210 years after stepping into a balloon basket for the first time, he became the first balloonist to soar over Pikes Peak in Colorado, reaching a height of more than 2500,21988 feet, and won the 21996 World Hot Air Balloon Championship in Battle Creek, Mich.
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You'd be hard-pressed to name a movie scene this year that draws more shivers and gasps that the sequence in "The Aeronauts" in which Felicity Jones — playing an intrepid balloonist, or aeronaut — traverses the side of a hot-air balloon floating 35,000 feet above the Earth.
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Tresa Owens, one of the 16 passengers who was killed in a tragic hot air balloon crash in Texas on Saturday, will be remembered as a loving parent and devoted caregiver, says her former boss at the Katy, Texas, daycare center where she worked for almost 25 years.
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Investigators to regulators: Do your job The Texas crash, some 30 miles south of Austin, took place two years after America's top transportation investigators basically told the chief of the Federal Aviation Administration that the FAA wasn't doing its job when it came to commercial hot air balloon safety.
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So lean back, pour yourself a glass of eggnog, and treat yourself to the stories of a 230-year-old who makes millions selling stinky fungi out of the trunk of his car, or a Swedish patent clerk who tried to conquer the North Pole by hot air balloon.
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The balloon, flown by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides chief pilot and owner Alfred "Skip" Nichols, hit a power line, setting its basket on fire, and plummeted into a pasture near Lockhart, about 30 miles (50 km) south of the state capital Austin, killing all aboard.
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The Empire is striking back again, but not in a galaxy far, far away ... Darth Vader's in action high above the Clifton Suspension Bridge in the UK. The hot air balloon is repping the Dark Side on the first day of the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta in Bristol, England.
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A majority in Collin County — the place where I was a parking lot attendant at the annual hot air balloon festival, the place where I dropped out of mosque school because it was so boring — voted for Donald Trump, a man who has aligned himself with white supremacists.
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He'll always be a unique mismatch who terrorizes defenses caught between stopping his momentum and realizing the moment they do he's going to fling a dart out to the three-point line, or put one of his teammates in a hot-air balloon to cram home a lob.
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I don't know how old you are but if your age vaguely aligns with mine you might remember a period in the late-90s where basically the only news story, for about four years, was about Richard Branson repeatedly attempting and failing to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon?
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If you know your photograph then you can get even smarter with your forgery detection: Low-light shots, like the hot air balloon one we featured here, require a long exposure to let in as much light as possible—and that means fast-moving objects in the scene should be blurred.
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"Back Around, Devil" was filmed shortly before his death, and watching this video, as he drifts off into the sky in a multi-coloured hot air balloon, or tries to exist while being wrapped in and attached to blood-soaked ropes, feels unsettling in light of what we know now.
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The Foundry Hotel in Asheville, N.C., offers a "leaf peeping by land, air and sea" package that starts with a guided Blue Ridge Parkway tour in a Tesla Model X, a hot-air balloon ride over the Pisgah National Forest and a paddle boat ride on the French Broad River.
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But while that's the case, it's hard not to feel like festivals are becoming less connected to the music industry and forming stronger connections with the "experience" industry, who are the people that will let you fly in a hot air balloon or give you a "Legends Tour" of the Etihad Stadium.
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Both Facebook and Alphabet are the biggest players in the tech industry when it comes to delivering internet over the air, with Facebook working on solar-powered drones and Alphabet having shifted its resources from satellites and drones of its own to its hot-air balloon project Loon and Google Fiber unit.
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The former chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, Deborah Hersman, urged the FAA in 2014 to address "operational deficiencies" in hot air balloon activities after several incidents, including one in Egypt that killed 21 people onboard, resulted in injuries and one death, according to a letter published on the NTSB's website.
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward Cruz3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges MORE (R-Texas) unveiled a bill this summer that would require hot air balloon pilots to get medical exams.
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Loosely inspired by actual events, the film follows the fictional Amelia Wren and the real-life meteorologist and ornery scientist James Glaisher (played by Eddie Redmayne, who won an Oscar opposite Jones in "The Theory of Everything"), as they attempt to set a record for the highest-altitude hot-air balloon flight.
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Similarly, there was Tomas Saraceno's "Aerocene Airport Cappadocia" (2016), a project/performance that used air-fueled balloon-like sculptures that have the ability to rise into the sky using solar energy — a direct nod to the hot-air-balloon rides the area is famous for, as well as the environmental damage they cause.
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"The Humane Society of the United States opposes the use of aerial gunning – whether from a helicopter or a hot air balloon – as a means of resolving conflicts with wildlife populations because it is unnecessarily cruel, dangerous and costly compared to other wild pig control methods," said Samantha Hagio, a director at the agency.
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Thrun ran X from 241 until 22012, and among its creations are the self-driving car (now known as Waymo), Project Loon, which aims to bring the internet to remote areas via hot-air balloon, and Google Glass, which businesses are now starting to use after it was discontinued as a consumer product in 24.
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" This was basically a memo to my bosses, telling them either "I, someone whose entire salary amounts to whatever bagels are left over and gasoline reimbursements, kind of dug this screenplay" or "this Die Hard But Also It's On A Large Hot-Air Balloon Now screenplay does not really deliver on that promising concept.
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" This was basically a memo to my bosses, telling them either "I, someone whose entire salary amounts to whatever bagels are left over and gasoline reimbursements, kind of dug this screenplay" or "this Die Hard But Also It's On A Large Hot-Air Balloon Now screenplay does not really deliver on that promising concept.
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"Yang concluded that Trump could probably beat him at "something that involved, like, trying to keep something on the ground and having really large body mass — like, if there was a hot-air balloon that was rising and you needed to try and keep it on the ground, he would be better than me at that, because he is so fat.
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Other marketing stunts by Paddy Power have included the unveiling of a hot-air balloon in the shape of a pair of lucky underpants at the Cheltenham Festival in 2013, and the display of a wax figure of the former Manchester United manager, Alex Ferguson, in a box labeled "In case of emergency break glass," when the soccer club was struggling in 2014.
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According to Eve's foundation website, even though her philanthropic adventure began when Richard attempted to fly from Morocco to France in a hot air balloon during the 1990s, she always looked for adventure from a young age, including enlisting in the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRENS) to provide help during World War II. Her son Richard also embarked on his own adventures at an early age.
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Those countries are currently facing what a senior UN official described recently as the gravest food crisis since World War II. Gifford, a professional adventurer who helped manage logistics for Richard Branson's attempt to circumnavigate the planet by hot air balloon, hopes that the Pouncer will be able to deliver food to places unreachable by conventional means of aid delivery, such as trucks and air drops.
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At least Todd's splurge, appropriately named La Coquette, beautifully wed Hollywood's flirtation with the hot-air balloon to the generation of great minds who took it from scientific curiosity to fictional razzle-dazzle at the speed of imagination — and now, with "The Aeronauts" honoring the pioneers who inspired Jules Verne, this buoyant symbol of foolhardy bravery has finally flown around the world and arrived back home.
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The list ranges from reliable friendship gems like going to a museum to less obvious activities such as hiring a friend to be your tour guide in a new city, or come with you to a work event or wedding that you don't want to attend alone, or be a workout partner or a wingman/woman, or teach you manners, or join you on a hot air balloon ride.
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" Emily laughs at such innocence, and readers will recall her own riotous stanza about a falling hot-air balloon: The Gilded Creature strains—and spins— Trips frantic in a Tree— Tears open her imperial Veins— And tumbles in the Sea— That strain of surreal violence is never suppressed for long in her work, especially in some of her startling beginnings: "If ever the lid gets off my head / And lets the brain away.
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A veteran British journalist, Christiansen enhances his lively account of this transformative era with a bibliography for further reading, as well as wonderful photographs and period illustrations throughout: a fancy-dress ball at the Tuileries palace; the shantytowns that once encircled Paris; four fiercely determined ladies riding the "bone-shaking" velocipede, precursor of the bicycle; a huge hot-air balloon whose function was to float mail out of the city under siege, and so on.
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Otherwise, any mention or appearance of technology in Pixar movies usually romanticizes older forms of tech, like the gas-guzzling autos from Cars, or the dirigible and homemade take on a hot-air balloon in Up. Because these are children's movies these characterizations can, for now, be chalked up to the studio's efforts to preserve what Baby Boomer execs see as a more innocent time, before the acceleration of current technology totally preoccupied kids with iPads and YouTube.
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Photograph by Haruka Sakaguchi for The New Yorker And there are a host of interesting appetizers, which are available à la carte or as part of a ninety-five-dollar kaiseki, or multicourse meal: spiny little eel bones, deep-fried until they're as crunchy as potato chips and served in what looks like a miniature hot-air-balloon basket; a skewer of surprisingly mild and chewy grilled eel liver; a "Caesar" salad, topped with croutons made from crispy eel skin.
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They range from harrowing tales of extreme partying to the origin of the monster hit "Up, Up and Away" — a music-business friend Webb for some reason identifies only as the Devil (we never do learn his name) asked him to write a song about a hot-air balloon for a movie that never happened — to the remarkable account of a chamber music concert at his home for which everyone, the musicians as well as an audience that included Joni Mitchell and David Geffen, was required to be nude.
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