But most people don’t know that balloon twisting is a much bigger deal, with its own community, its own superstars and even its own version of the World Cup: every two years, balloon artists ...

He was in the air for 44 hours 2 minutes, and so established a world's record ... Signal Corps balloon No. 10, capacity 78,000 cubic feet, in an attempt to win the Lahm cup. This they succeeded ...