Bill Whalen, launch master, leans against the uninflated Roziere balloon waiting to be inflated with helium. Whalen will help the Scholes get off the ground when the team is ready. (Rachel Cave/CBC)
A British couple’s transatlantic journey by helium balloon has been five years in the planning, including Royal Navy training on how to survive a ditch into the ocean.
Now it hangs on a weather report that has to come from Belgium to the southern New Brunswick town of Sussex.
Mike and Deborah Scholes cannot launch until their team meteorologist, whom they call their third pilot, confirms that conditions are
