Steve Fossett

Steve Fossett

male, 65 years old
James Stephen Fossett (born April 22, 1944, in Jackson, Tennessee) is a American aviator and adventurer known for his appetite to set world...

Kent Couch

male
Kent Couch is a 47-year-old gas station owner who in July of 2007 flew in a lawnchair elevated by 105 large helium balloons. Using amateur...
Bertrand Piccard

Bertrand Piccard

male, 51 years old
Bertrand Piccard was born on March 1st 1958 in Lausanne (Switzerland) into a family of explorers and scientists. His grandfather was the first...
Brian Jones

Brian Jones

male, 62 years old
Brian Jones is an English balloonist. Brian Jones, along with Bertrand Piccard, co-piloted the first successful uninterrupted circumnavigation of...
Larry Walters

Larry Walters

male, deceased (1993)
Lawrence Richard Walters, nicknamed Lawnchair Larry or the Lawn Chair Pilot was an American adventurer. He took flight on July 2, 1982 in a...
Per Lindstrand

Per Lindstrand

male, 61 years old
Per Lindstrand is an aeronautical engineer, pilot and adventurer who has lived in Oswestry, England, since 1978. He is particularly known for his...
Jean-Pierre Blanchard

Jean-Pierre Blanchard

male, deceased (1809)
Jean-Pierre Blanchard (7 July 1753 - 7 March 1809) was a French inventor, most remembered a pioneer in aviation and ballooning. Blanchard made his...
Auguste Piccard

Auguste Piccard

male, deceased (1962)
Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer. Piccard and his twin brother Jean Felix were born in Basel, Switzerland....
Ben Abruzzo

Ben Abruzzo

male, deceased (1985)
Benjamin L. Abruzzo was an American hot air balloonist and businessman. He helped place Albuquerque on the map as the balloon capital of the world....
Charles Green

Charles Green

male, deceased (1870)
Charles Green born in London 31 January 1785, died 26 March 1870, was the United Kingdom's most famous balloonist of the 19th century. He...