A pair of pilots have surpassed two balloon flight records — for duration and for distance — after flying across the Pacific Ocean
After six days in the air, pilots Troy Bradley and Leonid Tiukhtyaev have already clocked more than 6,075 miles, bursting through previous records set decades ago. And they're not done yet.
The aircraft, dubbed the Two Eagles balloon, is filled with helium rather than hot air. Bradley and Tiukhtyaev's team told Mashable that the balloon is currently traveling southeast along the North American coast, and is expected to land on the Baja peninsula Saturday.
The balloon lifted off from Japan in the early hours of Sunday morning. Bradley and Tiukhtyaev have lived for the past six days in a small closet-like compartment under the balloon. It is designed to withstand the impact of a hard landing and provide shelter for the men, but is only seven feet long, five feet high, and five feet wide Read more...
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