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Balloon race disasters are no laughing matter! 😉 asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/276...
Accident Gas Balloon S-6, Sunday 23 September 1923
Competing in 12th Coupe Aeronautique Gordon Bennett. Hit by lightning while airborne, like two other balloons, and crashed. First Lieutenants Robert S Olmsted and John W Shoptaw both kill...
By contrast, Ireland’s people were probably able to take a more nuanced view of Morley’s passing.
Gordon Bennet!
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