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Don Piccard. Donald Louis Piccard (January 13, 1926 – September 13, 2020) was a Swiss-born American balloon pioneer, promoter, innovator, designer, builder, and pilot. Piccard was born in Lausanne, Switzerland to Jean Felix Piccard and Jeanette (Ridlon) Piccard.
Oct 7, 2020 · The world of sport ballooning lost one of its pioneers with the death of Don Piccard on September 14, 2020. Don Piccard, founder of Balloon Federation of America, played a critical role in the development and popularization of post-war gas and hot air ballooning.
Oct 13, 2020 · Don Piccard, a pioneer in the sport of hot-air ballooning and scion of a balloon family whose parents reached the stratosphere, died on Sept. 13 at a hospice center in St. Paul, Minn. He was 94.
Oct 3, 2020 · And throughout his long life, Don Piccard became a balloon pioneer himself, an innovator, manufacturer and champion of hot-air ballooning as a sport. The National...
May 24, 2024 · LGBTQ. First male couple to wed in U.S. reflect on 20 years of marriage equality. Don Picard and Robert DeBenedictis say a lot has changed since the day they were married in Cambridge after Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage in 2004, but their love for each other remains strong.
Oct 14, 2020 · Don Piccard, a pioneer in the sport of hot-air ballooning and scion of a balloon family whose parents reached the stratosphere, died Sept. 13 at a hospice center in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was 94. His daughter Mary Louise confirmed his death but did not specify a cause.
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Don organized the World’s first sanctioned hot air balloon event at the St. Paul (Minnesota) Winter Carnival in 1962. This first competition with the new hot air balloons was sanctioned by the Winter Carnival and held on Don’s father’s (Jean Piccard) birthday, Jan-uary 28, 1962 from the frozen White Bear Lake.
