Uh, someone’s legacy is already being planned out, with enough general support using some new guy or family member to back it up. It could mean another 8-years of the same in the U.S. after the current term ends in a little over 3-years. But...
Windbourne is being proactive by working on some remediation to lessen the potential of their balloons being hit by aircraft, as well as decreasing the damage they can do if hit - their blog describes much more detail and how they are working on...
Yup, I tried to find the original post and couldn't. I remembered there was a lot of doubt by members here that a weather ballon could do that amount of damage. This article has conformation by the weather balloon company that it was their...
Old news. It was the plane that struck the weather balloon and it appears that either the FAA did not issue a NOTAM about it, or the pilots didn’t get it, even though the company that launched it did file a flight for their balloon and knew...