In other words, it stands accused of being a motorized vehicle, but this has yet to be proven in a court of law. It has more duct tape than paint on it, has been in the newspaper for accidents more times than on the road, and looks like it came out of a junkyard. The only parts that aren't about to fall off are the ones firmly rusted in place. It needs to have special-order replacement parts since the dealer, manufacturer, and country it came from no longer exist. It breaks down a lot, especially during plot-critical moments, and gets parking tickets while in motion. It tops out at about 40 miles per hour (45 going downhill). And it has many maladies you choose to interpret as charming quirks. It was cheap, it was affordable, it was there. Jeannette Ridlon Piccard (Don's mother)(JanuMay 17, 1981) was an American high-altitude balloonist She held the women's altitude record for nearly three decades, and according to several contemporaneous accounts was regarded as the first woman in space.She was the first licensed female. Gilruth, who became the director of the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, approved and used them in spacecraft. This was the first use of pyrotechnics for remote-controlled actuating devices in aircraft, an unpopular, revolutionary idea at the time. He used blasting caps and TNT for releasing the balloon at launch and for remote release of external ballast from inside the sealed cabin. [4 Piccard developed a frost-free window, that was used on this flight and later by the Navy and Air Force in the B-24 Liberator orB-26 Marauder. After this flight he created the liquid oxygen converter when the liquid failed to vaporize on descent after the cabin doors were open. The largest balloon in the world was conceived for him to fly at the World's Fair in 1933 but was flown there by US Navy pilots who were licensed. Jean Piccard was the co-pilot for his wife Jeannette on the third and final voyage of the Century of Progress. Piccard's inventions and co-inventions are used in balloon flight, aircraft and spacecraft. He invented clustered high-altitude balloons, and with his wife Jeanette the plastic balloon. known for his record-breaking helium filled balloon flights, with which he studied Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and for his invention of the first bathyscope FNRS-2 with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths.Jean Felix Piccard(Don's Father)(Januin Basel Switzerland - Januin Minneapolis Minnesota, also known as Jean Piccard, was a Swiss -born American chemist, engineer, professor and high-altitude balloonist. He also promoted ballooning as a sport and designed balloons to that end, through his company Piccard Balloons.Don held a number of patents for balloon manufacture.He took 1st place in the US National Hot Air Balloon Race in Reno Nevada in 1965.Don was World Renown as a Balloonist.Family Biography:Information taken from Wikipedia and from research I did on the family.Auguste Piccard (Don's Uncle)Auguste Antoine Piccard (28 January 1884 - 24 March 1962) was a Swiss physicist, balloonist, hydronaut, explorer and inventor. On 13 April 1963, he and Ed Yost were the first people to cross the English Channel in a Hot Air Balloon. In 1962, he set a new altitude record for a second-class free flight balloon, climbing to 17,000 feet. This club, along with the Balloon Flyers of Akron, formed the Balloon Federation of America, today the national organization for ballooning.He pioneered plastic and Mylar balloons. In 1948, he organized the first balloon club in the United States, the Balloon Club of America. He made the first post-war free flight in 1947 with a captured Japanese balloon. Also shown is a patch from his company Piccard Balloons and personal patch which he would have worn on a jacket at Balloon events.See my other Balloon and Space patches from Don Piccard estate.Biography from Wikipedia:Don was one of the driving forces behind the hot-air ballooning revival after the war while a student at the University of Minnesota. These items are not for sale as part of this lot, they are shown shown as provenance that these patches came from the Piccard estate. The photo shows Don in the balloon after decent, giving a mail bag to the US Postmaster. 3" long (diameter)This patch(es) lot came from the personal estate of Don Piccard, famous internationally known balloonist and manufacturerPLEASE NOTE:The last photo shown in this lot is of a stamp folio personalized to Don from the USPS commemorating Balloon Flight in 1959 with a US postage stamp. Vintage Thunderbird International Balloon Race Patch Don Piccard BalloonistA.G.S.I.MDimensions: Approx.
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