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Pilot
Co-pilot
Balloon |
Team |
Country |
Flown
distance |
Flown
time |
| 2000 |
44° GORDON BENNETT – Aérodrome, Saint-Hubert (Belgium) |
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| 1 |
Eimers, Wilhelm
Landsman, Bernd
D-OOWE ‘Columbus III’ |
Germany |
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795,7 km |
70:04 hr |
| 2 |
Abruzzo, Richard
Rymer-Davis, Carol
D-OYES ‘Oyes’ |
USA |
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745,3 km |
49:06 hr |
| 3 |
Jurg, Rien
Van Houten, Ron
PH-KTS ‘Festo Flyer’ |
Netherlands |
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623,0 km |
46:51 hr |
| 4 |
Akerstedt, Hans
Balkedal, Janne
D-OWML ‘Münsterland’ |
Sweden |
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432,3 km |
47:25 hr |
| 5 |
Kugler, John
Sheese, Ralph
D-OABQ ‘Albuquerque’ |
USA |
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322,8 km |
45:37 hr |
| 6 |
Frieden, Kurt
Knobelspiess, Manual
HB-BJB ‘Solvay’ |
Switzerland |
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278,6 km |
33:44 hr |
| 7 |
Fürstner, Johann
Stürzlinger, Gerald
D-OCOL ‘Columbus II’ |
Austria |
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276,9 km |
41:35 hr |
| 8 |
Herschend, James
Levin, David
D-OZAR ‘Snowbird’ |
USA |
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256,2 km |
50:29 hr |
| 9 |
Brachtendorf, Heinrich
Huthmacher, Karl-Heinz
D-OBCW |
Germany |
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256,0 km |
36:32 hr |
| 10 |
Van Havere, Ronny
De Cock, Philippe
OO-BCX ‘Belgica II’ |
Belgium |
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239,9 km |
42:33 hr |
| 11 |
Makné, Stefan
Góralewicz, Franciszek
SP-BZO ‘Polonez’ |
Poland |
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171,2 km |
22:37 hr |
| 12 |
Krebs, Max
Vollenweider, Walter
HB-BZH ‘Erdbeere’ |
Switzerland |
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158,7 km |
23:52 hr |
| 13 |
Waymel, Xavier
Degrelle, Bruno
F-PCBL ‘Le Globe-Trotter’ |
France |
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148,9 km |
08:20 hr |
| 14 |
Stoll, Christian
Najer, Werner
D-OCFT ‘The Nameless’ |
Switzerland |
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132,1 km |
33:57 hr |
| 15 |
Donnelly, Tom
Sutcliffe, David
G-BWOK |
United Kingdom |
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122,9 km |
23:18 hr |
| 16 |
Hennequet, Bertrand
Hennequet, François
F-GIRE ‘l'Inconnu’ |
France |
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32,7 km |
05:09 hr |
| 17 |
Hora, Tomas
Löschhorn, Volker
D-OWBF |
Germany |
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No result |
53:49 hr |
| 17 Disqualified after landing at North Sea - landing at 52,802350° N 003,770910° E |
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