The International Lorraine Mondial Air Balloons Festival
Hot-air balloons are pictured from a control tower while flying over Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, on July 31, 2013, to try to set a world record with 408 balloons in the sky, as part of the yearly event “Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons”, an international air-balloon meeting. (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP Photo)
Over 400 hot-air balloons take off in Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 in an attempt to set a world record for collective taking-off during the event “Lorraine Mondial air ballons”, an international hot-air balloon meeting. (Alexandre Marchi/AP Photo/L’est Republicain)
A car drives on a road while hot-air balloons fly over Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, on July 31, 2013, to try to set a world record with 408 balloons in the sky, as part of the yearly event “Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons”, an international air-balloon meeting. (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP Photo)
People watch hot-air balloons fly over Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, on July 31, 2013, to try to set a world record with 408 balloons in the sky, as part of the yearly event “Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons”, an international air-balloon meeting. (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP Photo)
Hot-air balloons rise over a field of sunflowers as they fly over Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, on July 31, 2013, to try to set a world record with 408 balloons in the sky, as part of the yearly event “Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons”, an international air-balloon meeting. (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP Photo)
Over 390 hot air-balloons prepare to take off in Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France on Aug. 1, 2013 to set a world record of collective taking-off during the yearly event “Lorraine Mondial air ballons”, an international air-balloon meeting. (Jean Christophe Verhaegen/AP Photo)
A hot-air balloon shaped as a giant bee is filled with air before flyingover Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, on July 31, 2013, as part of an event trying to set a world record with 408 balloons in the sky, as part of the yearly event “Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons”, an international air-balloon meeting. (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP Photo)
Hot-air balloons take off in Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, on Saturday July 27, 2013 in an attempt to set a world record for collective taking-off during the event “Lorraine Mondial air ballons”, an international hot-air balloon meeting. (Alexandre Marchi/AP Photo/L’est Republicain)
A hot air-balloon flies during the International Lorraine Mondial Air Balloons Festival, in Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, Friday, July 26, 2013. (Mathieu Cugnot/AP Photo)
Over four hundred hot-air balloons prepare to take off in Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 in an attempt to set a world record for collective taking-off during the event “Lorraine Mondial air ballons”, an international hot-air balloon meeting. (Alexandre Marchi/AP Photo/L’est Republicain)
