The (Two) Eagles Has Landed! Helium Powered Balloon Complete Historic Trans-Pacific Flight

Meera Dolasia
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:59:06 -0800

On January 25th at about 6.30 am local time, Troy Bradley of Albuquerque and Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia embarked on a historic balloon flight from Saga, Japan, to the shores of North America. Their trans-Pacific flight aboard Two Eagles was an attempt to break the world distance record established in 1981 by four men on a hot air balloon dubbed Double Eagle V.