Flight To Freedom: Meet The Man Who Flew A Self-Made Hot Air Balloon Over The Iron Curtain

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4 жыл бұрын

In September 1983, Czechoslovak cycling champion Robert Hutyra took his wife and two children and flew a self-made hot air balloon from their home country to Austria.
"We were three kilometers high. It was like when you see a nice ocean." The views may have been amazing, but the journey was perilous.
A mini-documentary by Current Time TV (subscribe: / currenttimetv )
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@kennethbobu3989 Жыл бұрын

The comment at 11:30 about the television broadcast he saw about the families that fled in a balloon is incorrect. The families referenced didn't flee from East to West Berlin (which was a closed city within the DDR with three sectors on the West (GB, F, US) forming West Berlin, and the Soviet Sector on the East forming what the DDR referred to as their capital, but was referred to by the West merely as East Berlin), rather they fled out of the DDR ( Take off in Oberlemnitz, East Germany, and landing in Naila, West Germany) and across the border into West Germany proper, not West Berlin. The families referenced were those of Peter Strelzyk and Günter Wetzel, who fled on September 16, 1979.

@PR-xr8qc 7 ай бұрын

I grow up in Cuba . Left in 2005 , I still remember by first time seating with an government officer in a small office because I wanted to travel abroad . All the time I wanted to leave , I had to go throu the same horrible bureaucratic process. Always scared that they will deny me exit . NOTHING COMPARES TO FREEDOM , my friends ! 😢

@maartjewaterman1193 2 жыл бұрын

I remember that vividly and we joked about it, saying that the iron curtain wasn't enough and now they had to build a roof over eastern Europe too to keep the people in.

@bearsagainstevil 2 жыл бұрын

Brave family , sad to think of the people who tried and got shot

@paul0gb 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing story!

@mummywelldaddywell6976 3 жыл бұрын

💛#redpill...from pan to a pot

@Hongaars1969 Ай бұрын

Wonderful watching this flight to freedom.

@lyudmila2882 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for uploading this inspiring story!

@jirizyka 3 жыл бұрын

neuvěřitelný příběh. Už jen přeletět ty hranice balónem by byl čin hodný obdivu, ale tohle je ještě o mnoho odvážnější. Sednout do samodomo postaveného balónu, bez předchozích znalostí. Bláznovství v dobrém slova smyslu.

@AbdiPianoChannel 2 жыл бұрын

If you never try you will never succeed

@mertalakr573 2 жыл бұрын

Rest in peace brave man.

@mo4848 Жыл бұрын

A man of intégrity

@patrikholy3267 3 жыл бұрын

R.I.P salute....

@robertdickson2319 3 жыл бұрын

Strange that the border didn't open fire. I like to think that they (or their officer?) just thought "...Cufk it. Man gone to all that trouble, just let him g'wawn!"