A marriage proposal, complete with brightly colored balloons and a three diamond ring from the Celebration Diamond Collection by Zales, is a serious, heartfelt thing. It requires a soundtrack that is ...

The National Transportation Safety Board wants hot air balloon pilots to possess current medical certificates. FAA The National Transportation Safety Board this week called upon the FAA to treat ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Commercial hot air balloons like the one destroyed in a fireball in Texas this weekend often carry more passengers than airplane and helicopter tours, but have long received less ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KXAN) — The Federal Aviation Administration officially implemented a rule requiring commercial balloon operators to have a second-class medical certificate, according to a release ...

A view of the Grand Canyon taken from an altitude of approximately 30 kilometers on a World View balloon test flight Oct. 24. The company hopes such views will entice customers to purchase $75,000 ...

LOCKHART, Texas (AP) — If Alfred “Skip” Nichols had been a commercial airplane pilot, he probably would have been grounded long ago. Nichols, the pilot of a hot air balloon that crashed over the ...

Two years ago, the National Transportation Safety Board urged the FAA to require tour operators to get agency permission to operate, and that balloon operators be subject to FAA safety oversight.

Near Space Corporation (NSC), one of seven suborbital flight providers selected to support the NASA Flight Opportunities Program, is proud to announce the creation of the first commercial high ...

Project Loon is a project to attach a solar panel-driven Wi-Fi antenna to a polyethylene balloon and fly it to the stratosphere at an altitude of about 20 km to provide the Internet to areas where ...

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