Park Van Tassel

Van Tassel rose slowly in his City of Albuquerque balloon to an apex of 11,000 feet despite it being only 2/3 full of lifting gas.

[13] In Scientific American he suggested the possibility of a transcontinental balloon voyage across North America in 1886, something unheard of at the time.

[15] In competition with other daredevils such as Baldwin, Percival G. Spencer, James Price, and others, he later toured the world with his Van Tassel Troupe, associated with balloon ascensions and parachute jumps.

[20][21][22] Van Tassel returned to the United States, living in the San Francisco Bay area and continuing his ballooning in Oakland.

Clara filed for divorce in 1890, and Van Tassel married Edith Ann Nowlan in 1892 in India.