Julian Nott (balloonist)

Julian Nott is a British balloonist best known for his achievements in record-setting exploits. Nott has 79 World ballooning Records and 96 British aviation records.

He has also demonstrated the possibility that the Nazca Lines geoglyphs might have been drawn with guidance from Nazca culture tribal leaders as long as two millennia ago, aloft in what could have been the earliest hot air balloon flights in human history. [http://www.nott.com/Pages/projects.php]

Sources

*“Balloon breakthrough,” "Geographical", February 2003.
*“Balloonist's goal: Nonstop trip around the world,” "St. Petersburg Times" February 12, 1989. [http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:SPTB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0EB5294B1D8B06FD&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&req_dat=0D0CB57AD31233F5] Downing, Bob.
*“EARTHWINDS CREW TRYING FEAT FAILED BY OTHERS: MONEY KEEPING BRITISH BALLOONIST FROM MAKING LAUNCH FROM CALIFORNIA,” "Akron Beacon Journal" (OH), February 14, 1992. [http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:ABJB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0EB62DB4A58F60C1&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&req_dat=0D0CB57AD31233F5]
*http://nott.com/Pages/about.php
*http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/plecture/nott/
*http://www.spacedata.net/advisors.htm
*http://ballooninghistory.com/whoswho/who'swho-n.html
*http://records.fai.org/pilot.asp?from=balloons&id=328