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Colin Prescot
Colin is a world renowned balloonist, he devised and led a stunt team for the central robbery sequence of Green Ice starring Ryan O’Neal and Omar
Sharif, and led the balloon stunt team for Superman 3 starring Christopher Reeves.
He made, and still holds the record for the longest flight in the British Isles (330 miles), and at the time set the record for the first hot air balloon flight to last through the whole night. His second paid hobby is water skiing, and he has personally conducted several
water-skiing stunts for films and television commercials.
In March 1999 Colin and co-pilot Andy Elson, flew the Cable & Wireless
balloon over 12,000 miles for 18 days to set an outright world endurance record
for an aircraft in the earths atmosphere. Although they were part of the race to
be the first to fly non-stop around the world they were thwarted by refusal to
enter Chinese airspace. However they succeeded in doing what experts believed to
be impossible by flying around China. To achieve this they had to survive a
violent thunderstorm in Central Thailand. |
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Colin Prescot is Chief Executive of Flying Pictures. He founded the company (The Hot Air Balloon Company) in 1976 at the age of 26. It is now the world’s largest operator of commercially sponsored hot air balloons, and European leader of aerial film production facilities.