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Transatlantic Cluster Balloon Attempt Fails, Pilot Safe

Thread starter ARRL
Start date Sep 13, 2013

ARRL

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Sep 13, 2013

Friday the 13th came early for cluster balloonist and radio amateur Jonathan Trappe, KJ4GQV, of Raleigh, North Carolina. Trappe’s attempt to cross the Atlantic in a cluster balloon ended the evening of September 12, when he “Landed safe, at an alternate location,” as he put it in a Facebook post. That “alternate location” was in Newfoundland, where he remained for the night.*

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Transatlantic Cluster Balloon Attempt Fails, Pilot Safe

ARRL

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