The University Balloon Race Scholarship Committee has been in existence since 1986 and has been awarding scholarship funds since the early 1990s. The University Balloon Race Scholarships have been ...

EVERY YEAR. THE FIRST SATURDAY IN MAY IS RESERVED FOR THE RUN FOR THE ROSES. BUT THE LAST SATURDAY IN APRIL HOSTS ANOTHER COMMUNITY TRADITION. THE DERBY FESTIVAL IS KIND OF THE GRANDFATHER OF ALL ...

THE CENTER OF THE TARGET. AND THERE ARE STILL TWO MORE BALLOON EVENTS. THE GREAT BALLOON GLOW TONIGHT AND THE GREAT BALLOON RACE TOMORROW MORNING. CHIEF METEOROLOGIST JAY CARDOSI. ALL RIGHT. EVERYBODY ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - The Great Texas Balloon Race is coming back to Longview. And the man who started it all is still competing, although, he admits now, he has a little help. At 82, Bill Bussey ...

HELEN, Ga. — The South's oldest balloon event and the United States' only long-distance hot air balloon race ended with a record finish. The winning balloon took six hours and 35 minutes to fly from ...

A chance to see or even ride hot air balloons is coming up in Galena. On Friday June 20 through Sunday June 22, the Great Galena Ballon Race will be at Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa (444 Eagle Ridge Dr., ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Kentucky Derby Festival’s Great Balloon Race is likely to take place after it was postponed Saturday morning. KDF officials said conditions are continuing to improve and the ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - The U.S. National Hot Air Balloon Championship is happening this week in Longview, and about 50 balloons were in the sky just after sunrise this morning. And one of the pilots ...

ACTION SEVEN NEWS AT TEN STARTS RIGHT NOW. WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS. THAT BREAKING NEWS, A BALLOON IN THE GORDON BENNETT GAS BALLOON RACE HAS CRASHED INTO POWER LINES NEAR CRANDALL, TEXAS. THIS ...

Ballooning is an ancient sport which dates back to 1784, when the hot air bag invented by the Montgolfier brothers made its first man-carrying flight from the gardens of the Tuileries in the presence ...