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Japanese balloonist aims for new world record TOKYO -- A Japanese man on Thursday set off to cross the Pacific Ocean in a hot-air balloon in a bid to break his own record for the longest time in the air. Local government employee Michio Kanda, 58, left before sunrise to begin his 9,000-kilometer journey to North America, which is expected to take him about 60 hours. Kanda, who has been air-ballooning for 30 years, set the record of 50 hours and 38 minutes after leaving Calgary in Canada and landing in Jordan in the U.S. state of Montana in 1997. "I will do my best as this is the culmination of my hot-air balloon adventures," Kanda told cheering fans before his departure north of Tokyo. |
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