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Winter is around-the-world balloon season--it's when the jet stream runs consistently west to east--so the last few weeks have witnessed, and the next few weeks will witness, an orgy of circumnavigation attempts.
Hughes' around-the-world flights made real the idea of global air travel.
Rutan, you may remember, is one of the true adventurers of the age: In 1986, he piloted the Voyager airplane on its astonishing nonstop, around-the-world journey.
The around-the-world balloon race, by contrast, is a nonsensical exercise.
The NYT lead communicates the vast, unprecedented scope of the revel, noting besides the hometown $7 million bash attended by perhaps 2 million people, an "around-the-world series of golden moments" in the Pacific, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.