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Hot air ballooning is a new pastime for Chinese Nike Air Max 2018 Sale , but it’s catching on fast. Deng Zhangyu takes to the air with some brave spirits in Changzhou, Jiangsu.
Just a couple of years ago, Chen Chunyu could only imagine what it would be like to ascend 1,000 meters above the ground, to a place between the clouds and the sun. Now the hot air balloon pilot routinely takes “selfies” against a bird’s-eye view of a city, then drifts away for the pure joy of floating through the air. Since 2011 Nike Air Max 2017 Sale , Chen has flown over mountains and rivers, volcanos, grasslands, terraced fields and other picturesque places around China.
“It’s different from taking a flight by airplane,” he says of his special kind of aircraft that allows Google Earth-style sightseeing without a computer screen or cellphone. “It’s a dreamlike feeling when you fly above the carpet-like clouds.”
Chen runs a transportation company in Changzhou, Jiangsu province. He is one of the five pilots who have obtained a pilot certificate for hot-air balloons in the past two years there.
Across China Nike Air Max 95 Sale , there are about 400 to 500 licensed balloonists, 90 percent of whom are individuals who get certified and then buy balloons on their own. The number of pilots started to rise with the new millennium, although the sport was introduced to the Chinese mainland in 1983.
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