Yost, Ed

Yost, Ed
▪ 2008
Paul Edward Yost 
      American engineer

born June 30, 1919, Bristow, Iowa

died May 27, 2007, Vadito, N.M.
was dubbed the father of modern hot-air ballooning after his historic 25-minute, 4.8-km (3-mi) flight on Oct. 22, 1960, in Bruning, Neb., in which he took to the air sitting in a contraption that resembled a lawn chair and dangled from a nylon balloon that was propelled by a propane-burner system. On April 13, 1963, Yost and Don Piccard became the first hot-air balloonists in modern times to cross the English Channel (in 1785 Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries made the first air crossing of the Channel); Yost and Piccard's feat was instrumental in popularizing air ballooning as a global and commercial sport. After earning a degree (1940) from the Boeing School of Aeronautics in Oakland, Calif., Yost worked as a civilian for the army, focusing on designing propaganda-disseminating balloons. He later worked for General Mills, specializing in high-altitude gas-filled balloons, before forming his own company, Raven Industries, which worked under contract for the navy. In 1976 Yost came up short (about 1,100 km [700 mi]) in his attempt to cross the Atlantic solo, but two years later he saw Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, and Larry Newman complete the journey in a balloon that he had designed. In 2003 he was the first inductee into the National Ballooning Hall of Fame.

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