London: Google&rsquo;s Project Loon Wi-Fi broadcasting balloons can feasibly circle the Earth in 33 days &mdash; a feat Ibis-167 recently tried to pull off. Jumping onto swift air currents and quickly changing altitudes, Ibis-167 circumnavigated the globe in a record 22 days.&nbsp;
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&ldquo;It enjoyed a few loop-de-loops over the Pacific Ocean before heading east on the winds toward Chile and Argentina, and then made its way back around near Australia and New Zealand,&rdquo; Google wrote on Project Loon&rsquo;s Google+ account.
&ldquo;Along the way, it caught a ride on the Roaring Forties &mdash; strong west-to-east winds in the southern hemisphere that act like an autobahn in the sky, where our balloons can quickly zoom over oceans to get to where people need them.&rdquo;
Project Loon is Google&rsquo;s attempt to bring Internet access to everyone on the globe via high-flying balloons. The company announced the project last June explaining that the balloons are solar-powered, remote-controlled, and can navigate stratospheric winds 12 miles above the surface of the Earth &mdash; far higher than most planes travel.

Google's Project Loon Ibis-167, Wi-Fi balloon, surfed air currents and dodged the polar vortex

Around the earth in just 22 days!

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