For the next hour, they and their balloon pilot sailed up to 1,000 feet above the Grand Tetons.

He then applied to the become a balloon pilot and was successful.

It features multicolored hot air balloons with more than a hundred balloon pilots from around the world.

The event is free, although balloon pilots will also offer rides, at $200 a person for a one-hour trip.

(Elsewhere in the state, balloon pilots charge $125 to $200 for similar rides.)

He started flying by hiring an experienced balloon pilot and took his first balloon rides as a passenger.

Soon he was working for a balloon pilot, who taught him to fly.

In September 1909, she made her first solo flight as a balloon pilot.

To a certain extent a balloon pilot can set a course by rising or descending into wind streams going in the desired direction.

The skills of the balloon pilots would be vital.