Video: 'Special - 1978 Flight Of Double Eagle II - 1st Trans-Atlantic Balloon Crossing imasportsphile.com' (Aug. 17, 1978, at 38:54)

(Wednesday, August 17, 1978, 7:49 p.m. Central European Summer Time) — The first successful trans-Atlantic balloon flight ended tonight as three Americans – Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman – landed their Double Eagle II in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours 6 minutes after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.