Last great shot of most of the crew before the last flight of Fiesta. It was a good time. Now we are seeing nicer weather but it's a crap shoot anyways. We got some good flying done and now we are back into the mode of weekend flying any time we want to... this weekend we had Mo flying Mojo's Reverse Gravity Machine or Ytivarg. It's such a nice balloon and handles pretty slickly even if it is hard to get her going down with a light load on board. She will come down. Ya just have to coax her a bit.( Mary and Dave were not in the picture because they were helping another Pilot get in the air and I was taking the shot ).
Today one of our bestest friends was in town from Portland and went flying with Mo. There was a time..way back when, when Mo was so small he would hold onto legs in the basket if it was a wild and woolly landing.. now.. he is at the burners and landing as easy as you please in the middle of neighbourhoods like it was a runway. No problem.
Below are the shots I thought were the shot of the day from Fiesta this last week....
This is a snapshot from one of my GoPro cameras.. It is a fantastic shot of KKisses Of Fire..Eric's new envelope ( just like his old envelope ) but made by Kubicek Balloons. Now Eric has a complete Kubi system. It even has turning vents which is super awesome.
A shot of Patturns In Chech 477 Terpsnickery ( by Eric H from his phone ) in flight with 45 gallons of propane and two passengers and Pilot. Totally awesome flight and she handled with no problem at all.
Overhead after most of the flight was off. It was a nice day.
Patturns Highperactive only got to static at Fiesta this year. We needed to fly more than one person and she has such a small heat area that putting two people in would shorten the flight time too much..It's possible but it was easier with In Czech.
Enchanted Diamonds positive burn. This balloon is so nice to look up into. It's a dream to fly and gorgeous in the sky.
Stacked. I was trying to get a shot of the two blue balloons, Chain Gang and UnChained but the others got in the way... and it was a good thing too.
A fish eye clip from the Kodak 360 camera. Such a cool view of the whole world.
I also worked on a banner for t shirts and one balloon pin.. shots below.
The original idea with lettering. I was informed that it might sit funny on a woman and I should try it vertical... which I did because it was good advice...
Vertical... very nice.
Dual colors.. neat-o.
All from this... and another sketch from the net but showing everything on a curve.
Now to get them to t-shirts.
Oh and the pin design for In Czech.
Main drawing with colors. From here I wanted to see how it really looked without all the white so I added some blue.
PATTURNS IN CZECH 477 TERPSNICKERY
Next I will do the MOJO Reverse Gravity Machine 47 Ytivarg pin. All will have the same dimensions and style.. after that I have to do a new Kiss A Hoy pin to match.. so there will be a set of four pins.
Somewhere in there I have to do cards for every balloon but PH. They can be different. Getting the information for the cards will be fun.. Ill work on that.. It has to have the history of the balloon on it so that's got to be done.
In all this we have to get the basket and burners cleaned and ready for the next rally in Gallup NM in December. Both of us are going to fly in PH and MOJO. Picture opportunity big time.
Whew.. what a week... and I didnt even get much posted from the Fiesta pics.
Hope your weekend was nice and calm and quiet and you got some rest. Flying Patturns Highperactive next weekend then she gets the cleaning. Can't wait to get her in the air with the new instruments.. got 6040s and as wonderful as they are they are super complicated to set up... on the up side.. they record every part of your flight and so you don't have to remember all those numbers at the end of the day.
Cheers!
