(NECN/WCBS: East Rutherford, N.J.) - The newest members of Macy’s famous Thanksgiving Day Parade along Fifth Avenue tested their wings in Jersey Saturday. Ronald McDonald, The Pillsbury Doughboy, Mickey Mouse dressed as a sailor and the amazing...
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Rescue workers on Monday searched the waters off the coast of southern Brazil for a Roman Catholic priest who has been missing for more than 24 hours after lifting off with 1,000 large helium-fille...
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www.tarproductions.com John Freis, 51, ties 170 helium balloons to his lawn chair (in a sophisticated manner, of course) and flies up to 12400 ft, traveling 46 miles in almost 4 hours. He had a parachute, oxygen, GPS, ballast and a BB gun. ... lawn chair balloon flight crazy extreme
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CBS4’s Northern Newsroom reporter Mike Hooker reports on the investigation of the helium balloon that floated above Colorado for more than two hours Thursday.
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iReport — What do you do when experimental pods, launched on a 100 mile, 2.5 hour flight via weather balloon and parachute end up in a tree? If you’re in Indiana, you exert some Hoosier ingenuity. That's what engineering students from the University of Southern Indiana (Evansville, IN) did when...
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iReport — When something gets stuck high in a tree you usually have to call in the professionals. Saturday October 24, 2009 was no exception, when engineering students from the University of Southern Indiana (USI) in Evansville, IN, discovered that their high altitude ballooning experiments had ...
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iReport — One of the most interesting points of any high altitude balloon flight is the moment the balloon bursts and begins its chaotic descent earthward. Here engineering students at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, IN have installed a high definition video camera looking u...
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