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By Cosmos Mariner, August 23, 2022
First Free Flight of a Modern Hot-Air Balloon Marker
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1 ► Nebraska, Thayer County, Bruning — First Free Flight of a Modern Hot-Air Balloon —  |
| On October 22, 1960, Paul E. ‘Ed’ Yost made the first free flight of a modern hot-air balloon from the former Bruning Army Air Field. The flight lasted 25 minutes and covered 3 miles. Humans first flew in 1783 in a hot-air balloon conceived and . . . — — Map (db m207000) HM | |||
| 2 ► Nebraska, Thayer County, Bruning — 397 — Bruning Army Air Field — |
| Bruning Army Air Field, located northeast of here, was one of eleven army airfields in Nebraska during World War II. Construction began in September 1942 on 1,480 acres of farmland, for which the government paid twelve landowners $73,400. The field . . . — — Map (db m206989) HM | |||