The countdown continues. According to the most recent reports from the balloonists, three of the teams were flying over Minnesota, two over Wisconsin, and three were in the area of Thunder Bay, Ontario, above Lake Superior.
Teams flying at higher altitudes are in the southern route.
Flight speed of the balloons is about 30 knots, Reagan said, at altitudes up to 10,000 feet. The race leader at the time of the reports was the team of David Levin and Alan Levin. The winner of Denver s only other national gas balloon race, in 1936, landed in Presho, S.D., after a flight of 385 miles. The Levin team was interviewed live via cell phone on Denver s KOA radio station Monday afternoon. To have eight teams still in the air after 48 hours is very encouraging, Reagan said.