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Agnė Simonavičiūtė
Agnė Simonavičiūtė is a Lithuanian female balloonist and FAI women's vice world champion. In 2014 Simonavičiūtė won bronze at 1st FAI World Hot Air Ballooning Championships, Women's World Championships in Leszno, Poland. In 2017 Simonavičiūtė won silver at 4th FAI Women's World Championships in Leszno. In 2018 she won silver at 3rd FAI Women's World Hot Air Balloon Championship in Nałęczów, Poland. She also participated in 2014 2nd FAI World Junior Hot Air Ballooning Championships where she finished 14th in open gender classification. References Living people Sportspeople from Kaunas Lithuanian balloonists 1995 births {{aviation-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Air Ballooning
Hot air ballooning is the activity of flying hot air balloons. Attractive aspects of ballooning include the exceptional quiet (except when the propane burners are firing), the lack of a feeling of movement, and the bird's-eye view. Since the balloon moves with the direction of the winds, the passengers feel absolutely no wind, except for brief periods during the flight when the balloon climbs or descends into air currents of different direction or speed. Hot air ballooning has been recognized by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) as the safest air sport in aviation, and fatalities in hot air balloon accidents are rare, according to statistics from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). History First manned flight The first clearly recorded instance of a balloon carrying passengers used hot air to generate buoyancy and was built by the brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in Annonay, France. After experimenting with unmanned bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
