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The Race That Turned to Ruin

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Nick Davidson | The Atavist Magazine | March 2025 | 2,300 words (8 minutes)This is an excerpt from issue no. 161, “The Balloon That Fell From the Sky.”ONE The winds were fast and the skies clear for the two days and nights that Mike Wallace and Kevin Brielmann had been airborne. The Spirit of Springfield, Wallace’s 1,000-cubic-meter hydrogen-gas balloon, drifted eastward over Poland at around 5,000 feet. It was already the longest flight either …
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The Race That Turned to Ruin

Nick Davidson | The Atavist Magazine | March 2025 | 2,300 words (8 minutes)This is an excerpt from issue no. 161, “The Balloon That Fell From the Sky.”ONE The winds were fast and the skies clear for the two days and nights that Mike Wallace and Kevin Brielmann had been airborne. The Spirit of Springfield, Wallace’s 1,000-cubic-meter hydrogen-gas balloon, drifted eastward over Poland at around 5,000 feet. It was already the longest flight either …

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