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    Making science soar in Albuquerque

    Nov 13, 2018 3 minutes
    Pigs fly – or at least one pig floats – at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.

    Inspired by a rainbow of flying orbs buoyed by flaming jets and coasting on the Albuquerque breeze, Kai and Hunter Wilson rush to pilot their own hot air balloon.

    Not a real hot air balloon, of course. The young brothers get to work setting aloft a mini gondola suspended beneath a helium balloon at the 7-Eleven Balloon Discovery Center, where visitors to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta can experiment with the scientific principles behind hot air ballooning.

    “We’ve come every year for about seven years, and

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