Escape artefacts

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1. They parked their Wartburg in the safety of a forest clearing about 23 km south of their home of Pößneck.
2. Then the two families unloaded the rolled-up balloon cover from the trailer. With a handcrafted wind machine that operated a repurposed motorcycle engine, they first blew cold air into the limp balloon.
3. Then Peter Strelzyk used a flamethrower to ignite propane gas from three bottles, thereby pushing hot air into the balloon cover, the lower end of which was held up by Günther Wetzel and Frank Strelzyk.
4. The balloon slowly raised up. Now Petra Wetzel and her young son Andreas, Doris Strelzyk and her son Andreas, and Peter Wetzel climbed onto the platform.
5. The tethers were cut. Then Peter Strelzyk ignited a second burner that provided the balloon with hot air from four bottles during the flight.