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<td>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 08:50:08 -0500</td>
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<div>Cluster Balloonist Abandons Attempt To Cross The
Atlantic</div>
<div>Jonathan Trappe Was Unable To Control The Balloons'
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<div>Jonathan Trappe’s dream of floating across the
Atlantic Ocean beneath of cluster of helium balloons
has ended in a safe landing, but on the wrong side of
the ocean. Trappe landed his cluster balloon in a
remote area of Newfoundland at approximately 1830 EDT
Thursday, September 12, 2013. Trappe had launched at
about 0800 EDT from Caribou, Maine and had been
airborne for only about 12 hours on a flight that was
expected to take 3-6 days.</div>
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<div>ANN spoke to Kevin Knapp, a veteran gas pilot, who
had the first duty shift in Trappe’s control center
following the launch. According to Knapp, the cluster
balloon was never able to achieve a stable float
altitude and developed a severe yo-yo effect --- rapid
descents with the aircraft hitting the surface of the
water, followed by rapid ascents to altitudes as high
as 21,000 feet or more. Trappe was unable to gain a
steady hand on the errant balloon cluster, which at
3,000 cubic meters of volume, was the largest in the
world.</div>
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<div>Flight service expressed real concern over the
inability to control the aircraft as they watched it
repeatedly descend below their radar and then reappear
climbing rapidly. Trappe and his team obviously had
the same concern and with Newfoundland representing
‘land’s end’ before venturing out over the Atlantic,
the decision was made to terminate the attempt.</div>
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<div>Knapp tells ANN that Trappe was able to execute a
landing after darkness had fallen and in low
visibility. In fact, he says Trappe is uncertain if he
is on the ground or possibly in trees, but he is down
and safe. Trappe noted on his own Facebook page that
he planned to spend the night in his gondola/lifeboat
and had lowered the exposure cover. Knapp said it was
raining in the area and storms were expected
overnight, however the weather trajectories for winds
aloft showed that in a perfect world Trappe could have
reached Ireland in 94 hours.</div>
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<div>Trappe posted on his Facebook page about 2000 EDT
"Landed safe, at an alternate location. Remote. I put
the exposure canopy up on the boat. Will stay here for
the night."</div>
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<div>Trappe has already made history as a cluster
balloon pilot having been the first to cross Lake
Michigan, the English Channel and the Alps before
making this attempt at the Atlantic.</div>
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<div>The first crossing of the Atlantic by balloon was
accomplished in 1976 by the late Ben Abruzzo, Maxie
Anderson and Larry Newman in their helium balloon
Double Eagle II – so named because it was the second
attempt by Anderson and Abruzzo. Bertrand Piccard and
Brian Jones required 3 attempts to get the Breitling
Orbiter balloon around the world for the first time,
and the late Steve Fossett was not successful in his
solo balloon circumnavigation until his 6th attempt in
the Bud Light Spirit of Freedom.</div>
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