On this day, 26 years ago, March 20, 1999 (February 3, 1999, the lunar calendar), humans successfully flew around the world in a hot air balloon for the first time. Piccard and Jones successfully flew around the world On March 20, 1999 (GMT), Swiss Pilka (41 years old) and British Jones (51 years old) finally completed the first time in a hot air balloon after nearly 20 days of flying. The feat of flying around the world, flying a total of 42810 kilometers. On March 1, the two of them first floated from the Swiss Alps to North Africa, flying over the Arabian Desert, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, Central America, and finally over the Atlantic Ocean, landing at a place called Mute, 300 miles southwest of Cairo, the capital of Egypt. Pirka came from a family of explorers. His grandfather was the first person in the world to lift a hot air balloon into the stratosphere; his father was the only person in the world to dive into the Mariana Trench (10911 meters deep) with a deep-sea submersible. The hot air balloon "Breitlin Global 3" On March 20, 1999, humans successfully flew around the world in a hot air balloon for the first time