Albuquerque balloonist. Double Eagle II, 1978. He helped this city learn to look up.
Ben Abruzzo was an Albuquerque businessman who treated ballooning as a craft. In 1978 he flew Double Eagle II with Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman, the first balloon to cross the Atlantic.
The Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum carries the name beside Maxie’s. The museum is theirs. We only point at it.
We write him as a hometown hero of the sky. This page is not authorized by the family, and the picture is balloons, not his face.
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