HOW THEY’RE ASSEMBLED AND HOW THESE AIRCRAFT WORK. PILOTING HOT AIR BALLOON IS A TEAM SPORT USUALLY A CREW WHO LOVES THOSE EARLY MORNING AND SOME GOOD FLYING CONDITIONS. MOTHER NATURE MUST WORK IN ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gas ballooning, as an adventure sport, is likely to fade away in the United States, as a sharp spike in helium prices and supply constraints threaten the survival of the sport.

A solar panel, Cheez-Its and a GPS unit will also take up space as the accomplished Albuquerque ballooning pilots compete to travel the farthest distance in one of the world’s most prestigious races.

CUMBERLAND, Md. — It's a chilly March morning, and Mary Bowden is standing in the parking lot of a local community college. Bowden is a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland ...