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Aconcagua crossing – Flight Diary by Uwe Schneider. On the 3rd February 2010 Josep Mª Lladó and Uwe Schneider successfully crossed the Andes flying directly over the Aconcagua – the highest mountain in the western hemisphere at 6,962m (22,835ft). They were flying the Ultramagic Ecomagic Aconcagua N-180 balloon. Here is the actual diary account of the […]
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Ultramagic "Aconcagua" balloon safely crosses Aconcagua in the Andes. Josep and Uwe successfully crossed the Andes flying directly over the Aconcagua – 3 February 2010. They took off in the Ultramagic Ecomagic Aconcagua balloon at 7:23 in Illapel in Chile, climbed to 6000 m and then flew for a long time at 5000m to achieve […]
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Ultramagic team prepare the "Aconcagua" balloon in South America. After completing successful test flights recently in the Dolomite mountain region of Italy, the Aconcagua balloon is now in South America being prepared flight ready to make its next epic flight – over the mountain of the same name Aconcagua – the highest mountain in the Americas. The […]
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Josep flies Ecomagic “Aconcagua” balloon at Dolomite Balloon Festival. Josep LLadó Costa recently returned from the Dolomite Balloon Festival in Dobbiaco Italy which he attended between 10th and 16th January 2010. He used this event to test out the duration of a new ECOMAGIC N-180 demonstrator “Aconcagua”. Josep as managing director of Ultramagic is well […]