Lets go backwards...
High speed landing in a nice open area. 12 plus mph and we are two feet off the ground. No brakes. Screaming down very quickly to ground level. Going overhead watching where the other balloons are going at different levels to find a place that will allow us to come down quickly and with good space ahead. Scudding along before heading over houses. Throwing my baggie at the target without hitting the balloon below me by spinning it in. It corkscrewed clockwise and landed about 5 meters from the center ( not bad for the first throw in over six months ). Three dimensional tacking in the available winds to go toward where we think the target is. playing with other balloons in the air nearby and yelling and laughing at each other. Launching into the air and going is weird directions. Inflating and seeing the envelope above me dishing in and we are rocking back and forth. Hot inflating and having to switch tanks as the ten isn't putting out as good as it should. Getting a whole bunk of new folk to do things they have never done before. Having friends show up with help that makes the whole thing worth it. A morning sunrise with great people in the middle of almost nowhere. No coffee stop.
it made the week prior fade out a bit. The whole week didnt go as planned except one thing. No bad.. just not planned.
A few shots from the basket from the 360 camera...
Just spinning the bagging off the side of the to miss Craig and hit just South East of the center of the target below. Had to wait till Craig cleared the tagret.
Way up to move into a place where we could drop into the field out West of us. Good steerage.
Down low and very fast. racing across the ground without hitting anything, looking for a cross road to land next to. Skipped the first on because the ground after the road had a lot of brush in it.... zipping to the next one showed a cleanish area so dropped it in the middle of the road on a corner then touched the berm then dragged to a stop while pulling the top out. It was wild and seriously fun.
Kick butt day but not one I would usually fly. Worth it!
Ill give you some websites to browse.. They sounded interesting. They might be.. or total duds. Lately some of the tech web sites that I used to visit are all going hyper slanted in their reporting and adding political info in that is so wrong I worry for our "tech base minds". I expect what is happening is an infusion of losers that cant think for themselves spewing crap to increase readership and at the same time dumbing down the tech info so far that to me its like reading primers.
Stop. Go back to the real news and information on tech. Stop your extremism or lose me and a massive amount of other readers who think about things instead of gum it and spit it back out.
Not fun. You all need bibs and someone to change your diaper.
Does anyone really need another xbox. I'll wait like I did with this last one.
Knew this but great to get some validation. Good info... no crap
If you feel the need to spend more money than its worth.
Web site is in french and it does not really go into the story behind each shot but its interesting. I wish the data was there to explain the notations.
This was interesting. Worth a listen or read. I only stay for my friends.
Well.. we are babysitting my granddaughter and she is a toot. She did go out to fly with us Saturday. She didnt care about the burner noises and all the stuff but I was glad they kept her in the car and out of the sun and wind and loud noises except for the pack up.
This is a standard for all baby's in ballooning. A sit on the envelope bag. She owns this balloon now..LOL
Onward and upward.
