The Two Eagles set a record by flying 6600 miles in a balloon across the Pacific Ocean

#twoeagles #balloonist #pacificocean American Troy Bradley and Russia's Leonid Tiukhtyaev, also known as Two Eagles, have set a record as reported in news.sky.com dated 31 January 2015 - they have flown more than 6,600 miles across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon after they started their venture from Japan on Sunday.
They have landed safely off the coast of Baja California near La Poza Grande in Mexico after being six days in the air. And – they have overtaken the existing world distance and duration records for human flight in a helium-filled balloon. Even after landing, the balloon was stable and still inflated and the pilots were fine. They had been in the balloon for six days, 16 hours and 37 minutes.
The records is yet to be officially confirmed but, the team have confidence that they have travelled further than other teams whose records were confirmed. Water landing is acceptable under the international rules governing the establishment of world records.
The earlier two around-the-world attempts made by using a different type of balloon had landed in the water and were approved as records.
The previous distance record of 5,209 miles was set in 1981 by Double Eagle V – it was the first balloon to successfully cross the Pacific. And - the duration milestone was set in 1978 in the first trans-Atlantic balloon flight.