"You know," said the bartender, "my brother flew one of those needlenoses back before the war."

The brothers, who are in their 30's, have been flying the balloon over eastern Connecticut the past few weeks.

Barrie would say, to amuse them, that their little brother Peter could fly.

His mother and younger brother flew out there this morning.

"This brother flew me to safety when there was a bounty on my head."

I remember when my mother was in that terrible accident last summer and my brother flew home.

She found it hard to believe that both a brother and sister disappearing from the same small community would fly.

One brother will not fly helicopter and leave other here.

"My brother flew out and didn't have a scratch," Daly said.

"My brother is flying in from Boston to see it," Foil said.