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And when you land. this is what i understood this morning, listening to the pilot briefing. small changes, you know, that wouldnt affect many other leisure activities have such a big impact with the hot—air balloons. yes. and what you have to know that every season is different to fly. thats why, if you should want to be a good pilot, you have to fly every week. 0therwise, youre a bad pilot. with some balloons starting to take to the skies, ijoin nick in the basket. oh, wow. and, within just a...

Such balloons have made headlines after the US shot down one.

Theres one named boulder 21, which reportedly carried sophisticated surveillance equipment and circumnavigated the globe from december 2021. until may 2022. but dont worry . remember what biden told us about that first by balloon. the idea that a balloon could traverse, uh, break american airspace is, uh mhm. anyway. its not a major breach. joining me now is stephen moser, president of the population research institute and author of bully of asia. why chinas dream is the new threat to world orde...

One balloon flew over a U.S. carrier strike group in the Pacific, and another circumnavigated the globe with sophisticated surveillance technology.

Been for more. yeah kaylie, it just gets worse and worse. you know, it turns out there wasnt just one, uh, chinese by balloon, but a whole series of chinese bible and floating around the world over sensitive places and look, lets not call them spy balloon because that makes it sound like were the kids birthday party? the chinese call them espionage, spy airships, airships, the very sophisticated airships. they carry enough solar power panels to generate 10,000. watts of electricity. they carry s...

Which collected in real, time sense, intelligence related back in real time to china and of course, they flew overhes alaskan airspace down the west coast of canada. all across the continental us , idaho, montana, missouri,i kansas, kentucky, the carolinas. and when biden finally shoot authorized the military to shoot that balloon down, that spy balloon dow n after it sailed off the coast of southd sorolina, china, whatheyt they they just issued another threat. so will biden responspond tod tf t...

The pacific and indeed,nd the potentially at home. the balloon shows us that at least selectively, they have a huge nuclear force. heres the thing. the stakes are enormouslyek t consequential. youre right. they seek to become dominant. how do wo becomew do we know the we can see the kind of moves theyre making, great power diplomacy. we can see maki a military theyre building, which is clearly and indisputably forr global power projection. and indeed, i would sapoy over time for dominance, theyr...

Small changes, you know, that wouldnt affect many other leisure activities have such a big impact with the hot—air balloons. yes. and what you have to know that every season is different to fly. thats why, if you should want to be a good pilot, you have to fly every week. otherwise, youre a bad pilot. with some balloons starting to take to the skies, ijoin nick in the basket. oh, wow. and, within just a few seconds, we are whisked high up into the air. nick, can you tell me what youre doing? i...

Yes. and what you have to know that every season is different to fly. thats why, if you should want to be a good pilot, you have to fly every week. 0therwise, youre a bad pilot. with some balloons starting to take to the skies, ijoin nick in the basket. oh, wow. and, within just a few seconds, we are whisked high up into the air. nick, can you tell me what youre doing? i mean, there seems to be all sorts of things going on. yeah, so at the moment, all were doing is keeping the balloon nice and l...

Bowl suspended under hot air balloon. the red bull put scottish pro cyclist and engineer chris kyle 2000 feet in the air and performed the tricks, specially made hot air balloon had to be six times bigger than a standard balloon just to lift the nearly 2-ton bowl off the ground. like the bikers first extraordinary ride, he previously jumped out of a helicopter and landed on a dubai skyscraper. >> thats when you cant really prepare physically or mentally because you know know what is going to be ...