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About Richard Abruzzo
- Richard Abruzzo (May 19, 1963 – c.
- September 29, 2010) was an American balloonist. His father was Ben Abruzzo and was from Albuquerque, New Mexico. He and Carol Rymer Davis won the 2004 Gordon Bennett Cup.
- He was awarded the Harmon Trophy in 2001, 2003 and 2005. He and Rymer Davis were lost at sea on September 29, 2010 while competing in the 54th Gordon Bennett Cup.
- Their bodies were found off the coast of Italy in the Adriatic Sea on December 6, 2010.
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