Cruzando o Pacífico em balão de ar // USA TODAY
From USA TODAY Balloonists set records crossing Pacific http://usat.ly/1CIQaX0 Get USA TODAY on your mobile device: http://www.usatoday.com/mobile-apps Balloonists set records crossing Pacific Michael Winter, USA TODAY 6:23 p.m. EST January 30, 2015 (Photo: Troy Bradley, Two Eagles Balloon Team/AP) 91 CONNECT 39 TWEET 2 LINKEDIN 2 COMMENT EMAIL MORE Heading for an expected Saturday-morning landing in Baja, Mexico, two balloonists crossing the Pacific have made history by traveling farther and longer in a gas balloon than anyone else. The pilots of the helium-filled Two Eagles — American Troy Bradley, of Albuquerque and Russian Leonid Tiukhtyaev, of Moscow — eclipsed the distance record of more than 5,209 miles Thursday afternoon and the duration mark of more than 137 hours Friday morning, according to the site tracking the voyage. The old distance record was set in 1981 by the Double Eagle V on the only other trans-Pacific balloon cross...