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The Perfect Form of Flight: Kathy Mexted

Nothing has prepared me for how much I fall completely in love with my first ballooning experience. Is this the forgotten sibling of flight? So underestimated as we concern ourselves with bigger, faster and noisier?

Fancy-pants paint colours and sleek aerodynamic hardware seem facile against the balloon’s silky envelope that skips lightly across frozen vegetation at

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