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  1. A conversation with pilots Bertrand Piccard & Brian Jones
    A conversation with pilots Bertrand Piccard & Brian Jones

    with Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard on Apr 9, 1999

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Brian Jones is a British balloonist. A former Royal Air Force pilot, he entered the world of ballooning in the 1980s, and in 1997 became an organizer for the attempt of the British-built, Swiss-sponsored Breitling Orbiter 3 to circle the world nonstop. On Mar. 1-20, 1999, he and Dr. Jacques Piccard succeeded where many had failed, floating from Switzerland southwest to Mauritania, then eastward across Africa, Asia, the Pacific, North America, and the Atlantic to a landing in the Egyptian desert. They wrote “Around the World in 20 Days” about their flight.

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