Balloon pilots prepare to break long-distance record
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - An international team led by two veteran pilots is preparing to break a pair of major ballooning records when it launches its helium-filled balloon this week.
Albuquerque pilot Troy Bradley and fellow pilot Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia say they anticipate launching early Friday morning from Saga, Japan.
The team's mission control will be located in Albuquerque at the Anderson Abruzzo International Balloon Museum.
The two pilots aiming for the shores of North America, an attempt that will put them on course to break a distance record of 5,208 miles.
They're also looking to break the flight-duration record set in 1978 when Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman made the first trans-Atlantic balloon flight. That record of 137 hours in the air in a traditional gas balloon is considered the "holy grail" of ballooning achievements.
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