Saturday Morning |
Denise giving us an idea of
scale.
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Crown line director John. |
Crown line director John is very
happy with the mornings inflation.
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In this balloon, Lisa Crites and
crew chick JoEllen |
and in this balloon, Ed Lappies
the 'Monkey Business' balloon man. |
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Please stop for the shuttle. |
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Balloonmeister Crites. |
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This next series of photos
illustrates the 'ideal' way to put Patriot back in the bag. |
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That's how its done! |
Tim, talking to Alan Greenspan.
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Great shot of Captain Jon... |
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This year's fingernails!!
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Caption Captain Barry... |
This mornings flight was
beautiful and again we broke our record time in packing up. It did help for
both balloons to land in the same field at Bates College and for us to get
off of the field early. Regardless, both balloons were packed up and ready
to get loaded into the trailer by 8:00 AM!!!
I blame the fantastic crew
that we are provided with here at the festival. |
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Friday Morning |
Can't we do this ballooning
thing just a little later in the day? Just wondering...
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Ray Fournier's balloon taking
off on a wonderfully calm morning.
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All unfurled and almost ready to
fly. |
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Me, Teri with my new hair.
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The top of Patriot's fuselage.
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I love this shot. |
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Barry's second flight of the
day. |
Leaving the field. Now we just
need to find a place to land these monsters! |
I didn't get the splash and dash
photos from the bridge... I repent and hope this one will do for now. |
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Ninth and Cook Street. |
A beautiful landing.
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The fastest deflation of Patriot
yet! |
One of our faithful crew members
and his sister. |
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