{"id":1327,"date":"2013-07-11T14:30:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2013-07-11T14:30:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T12:30:40","slug":"guinness-world-record-attempt-asia-europe-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/2013\/07\/11\/guinness-world-record-attempt-asia-europe-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinness World Record Attempt: Asia &#8211; Europe flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"137117dde994ef920366dbf34e4e7cff\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2865779868887008\";\r\n\/* Android box *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1345074415\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The participants of <a href=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/?p=1320\">International Sport Competition of Hot Air Balloons &#8220;Sky Fair &#8211; 2013\u201d<\/a> \u2013 which was FAI Sporting Event \u2013 made a special flight after the contest program. We travelled from Kungur (host city, Perm region) to near Pervouralsk (satellite city of Yekaterinburg) at evening 5th July 2013. There is monument with a huge column which shows the border of Europe and Asia \u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/preview#!q=56.870553%2C+60.047951&amp;data=!1m4!1m3!1d1455!2d60.0476!3d56.8706!2m1!1e3!4m10!1m9!4m8!1m3!1d17625459!2d-95.677068!3d37.0625!3m2!1i1024!2i519!4f13.1&amp;fid=7\" target=\"_blank\">56.870553, 60.047951<\/a>). Twenty-two balloons are arrived to the meeting point. The distance is 250 km between Kungur and Pervouralsk which is not so much but the journey was hard because the Russian bus and roads. We had a good lunch and some rest. The organisers provided a nice folklore show too.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_664\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-664\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-664 \" title=\"Folklore show at border of Europe and Asia\" alt=\"Folklore show at border of Europe and Asia\" src=\"http:\/\/ballon.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-05-20.37.11.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Folklore show at border of Europe and Asia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some balloons are prepared to take-off close to the monument and the rests are moved to a nearby glade after the briefing in the Asian side. We didn\u2019t plan long flight because huge forests, big lakes and few glades were in the flying area. The destination was only crossing the border of the two continents which was successful.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_666\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-666\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-666 \" title=\"Briefing before the flight\" alt=\"Briefing before the flight\" src=\"http:\/\/ballon.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-05-19.32.36.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Briefing before the flight<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_641\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-641\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-641 \" title=\"Launch from Asia\" alt=\"Launch from Asia\" src=\"http:\/\/ballon.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-05-21.10.19.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Launch from Asia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We recorded and scored the flights with same tools as the competition flights. The officials of the FAI Sporting Event checked the tracks of GPS loggers after the flights. One pilot turned on the GPS logger during the flight. We can\u2019t record his take-off position but that was the first documented Event were many hot air balloons flight over the Europe \u2013 Asia border. The organiser will apply for the approval of Guinness Record.<\/p><!--CusAds0-->\n<div id=\"attachment_645\" style=\"width: 809px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ballon.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Asia-Europe-flight.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-645\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-645   \" title=\"The green line is the border of Europe and Asia. The tracks of the balloons are red.\" alt=\"Europe - Asia flight\" src=\"http:\/\/ballon.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Asia-Europe-flight.jpg\" width=\"799\" height=\"596\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The green line is the border of Europe and Asia. The tracks of the balloons are red.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_683\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ballon.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Asia-Europe.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-683\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-683 \" title=\"Asia Europe flight. We started at first and we flew southernmost.\" alt=\"Asia Europe flight. We started at first and we flew southernmost.\" src=\"http:\/\/ballon.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Asia-Europe.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asia Europe flight. We started at first and we flew southernmost.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mor photos from the Event are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justmedia.ru\/photoreports\/perelet-evropa-azija\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ekabu.ru\/tradeunion\/71439-foto-otchet-s-nebesnoy-yarmarki-gorod-pervouralsk-stella-evropa-aziya.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/66.ru\/news\/freetime\/140240\/photoreportage\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e1.ru\/news\/spool\/news_id-391172.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The participants of International Sport Competition of Hot Air Balloons &#8220;Sky Fair &#8211; 2013\u201d \u2013 which was FAI Sporting Event \u2013 made a special flight after the contest program. We travelled from Kungur (host city, Perm region) to near Pervouralsk (satellite city of Yekaterinburg) at evening 5th July 2013. There is monument with a huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,15,49,21,24,25,28,32],"tags":[55,101,102,130,135,145,151,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}