She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.
The miser earths his treasure, and the thief, / Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon.