They will be in the air for about 50 to 65 hours, carrying all their necessary supplies and navigating through the Midwest, toward the Northeast and possibly into Canada if they catch good wind. The entire invent is enhanced by the Albuquerque box, which is a wind pattern that blows north at one elevation and south at another. It allows pilots to launch covered substantial distance and then return to the starting point at the lower level. If you want to track the race, here's a link
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 0:30
So all this is maintained through an Albuquerque box wind pattern. This is incredible. So it blows two different directions based on the altitude that they're in. I mean, I'm sure there are other places in the world that may do the same thing, but I'd never heard of that. So this is very interesting. Hot air balloons. I mean, the people that go up there are brave, brave, brave. And I am not. But thank you so much for reporting on this
bob dennis
@Urbanlegends · 1:27
Hello. I'm glad you enjoyed the episode. I actually went up at a hot air balloon several times, but the most notable of which was in a summer day, I believe, in August of several years ago. My then four year old son and the pilot of the hot air balloon, who was a friend of ours, the envelope part, the big balloon part, was 97,000 hot air