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Thursday, 28 July 2011

Up, up and away! The spectacular photos of world record-breaking balloonists taking to the sky -

Up, up and away! The spectacular photos of world record-breaking balloonists taking to the sky -

Record breakers: The magical moment a staggering 343 hot air balloons took to the air at the same time


It took a lot of hot air - and a little bit of patience - but 343 hot air balloonists have finally broken the world record for taking off at the same time.
The high-flyers' mass ascent at the 12th Lorraine World Air Balloon Festival, in Chambley-Bussieres, France, should have taken place on Monday.
But bad weather put paid to their plans, meaning they had to postpone their lift-off until today.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019389/Up-away-The-spectacular-photos-taken-world-record-breaking-balloonists-took-skies.html#ixzz1TP5LSaZz


And they're off! The balloons came in all shapes and sizes and from across the globe for the world record breaking event


Grounded: Hundreds of balloons stretch out as far as the eye can see moments before take off


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