For the Talbot Paramedic Foundation, The Great Chesapeake Balloon Festival has been a community project since they started organizing it five years ago. This year the festival, held on August 5 and 6, attracted an unexpectedly large crowd of 14,000 people and raised $20,000.
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Konyukhov plans to launch in a Roziere balloon from Australia in June 2016 and fly around the Southern Hemisphere. He hopes to break the record set by American adventurer Steve Fossett who completed his round-the-world flight in 13 days and on the sixth attempt, in 2002.
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