Celina Balloon Festival

[QRasco]

A few taken at the festival.
Taken with D-70 and 18-200VR.

[keeper]

Great pictures!! I went to the Balloon Glow on Friday evening and here are some of mine:









The rest are http://kussmaul9.com/BalloonGlow

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

The big boy in Albequerque is in the fall and if you have never gone it is worth going to at least once in your life.
The year that I went they had over 500 balloons and the way the area is set up they can launch in waves and have the earlier waves use regular air patterns to come back over the launch site above the ones on the ground so just about everybody can be in the air at one time. (they call it the box-air flow at ground to XXX ft is south to north and then you go up a few hundred feet and it is north to south (pretty much or flow could be the opposite directions at ground level), and then it reverses again several hundred feet higher. Because of the mountain range to the east and a few other characteristics of the area this effect is regular and consistant.

Only reason that some baloonists don't fly the event is because just about anywhere they land and of course the launch area the baloons get very dirty/dusty and they have to wash their envelopes after the festival. You ask how do you wash a big old baloon? One method is to back up 2 pickups with sealed beds to each other-place baloon in one bed with a lot of water and some soap and then go in and wrestle the dirt out, then transfer the balloon to the next truck bed full of clean water and repeat if necessary. The hard part is then trying to wring the water out of the baloon enough so that a fan can blow air in it to dry it out enough so that it can be inflated and dried all the way.

[Daniel Bates]

There's a balloon show in the Longview area too. I'm not sure quite when. . .

[hookem]

Nice shots guys.

Don't forget about the Plano Balloon Festival Sept. 22-24 in... uhmmm.... oh yeah, Plano.

[iCe]

Originally Posted by hookem

Nice shots guys.

Don't forget about the Plano Balloon Festival Sept. 22-24 in... uhmmm.... oh yeah, Plano.

Just plain ole balloons? So are they all 18% gray or what?

[ibixable]

Love the last shot that is me on the crown line that was work on Friday night.
Anybody have any questions we crew for one of the local pilots and got with her to most events she attends.

Cory