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Cherie and I are heading to Letchworth State Park in New York for a balloon event. All you guys and gals have fun and be safe. Say a prayer for all of those in uniform who wont be getting the weekend off.

What date are you guys are getting there???. You stopping by Rebel's on the way up or down??.You going the RT 75 way or 95??.You Know there is Logan and a bunch of guys from here in Ohio.Chops is in Cleveland.Blazer is in Cinnci.

Have a great trip and Lynne and I will plan camping around your trip next year. We just have to remember.

Man, you guys get around. But isn't it a bit out of your way to go from Florida to New York via Ohio?


And yes, we'll make time to remember.

LiftedAWDAstro wrote:Have a great trip and Lynne and I will plan camping around your trip next year. We just have to remember.

We made our camping reservations for this weekend at Letchworth the earliest we possibly could,which was last August! The sites seem to fill up fast there,at least for Memorial Day weekend.Not sure the rest of the season.Probably the same for the holiday weekends. Gary you going to be there this weekend ? See you soon Skip!

Skip-still need to know that date your going to get there.The holiday is out,but before hand maybe.Let me know.

1Gary wrote:Skip-still need to know that date your going to get there.The holiday is out,but before hand maybe.Let me know.

Not sure if they left yet,but the first balloon launch is 6pm on Friday. My guess,they would arrive on Thursday sometime.

Smiliesafari wrote:Cherie and I are heading to Letchworth State Park in New York for a balloon event. All you guys and gals have fun and be safe. Say a prayer for all of those in uniform who wont be getting the weekend off.

and for those in balloons too.....

Well, we hit a small snag. We were going to leave early Wednesday but it may be later in the day. I still plan on being there for the Friday launch. Gary.......I'm not sure of the exact route. I leave those details to Cherie. We're in a time crunch so visiting is out. We're going to take six days to return so maybe we will see Larry on our way home. See ya soon, Bill.

Safe floating Smiles! By the way, anybody ever call you balloon boy? Just checking!

Ive been meaning to ask you this..

do balloonists make a flight plan or do ya just "wing it" once in the air and just hope you find a safe landing spot.

you can only go in the wind direction or can they make turns?

also, can you float them at night?


thanks and good luck, have a good one!

snapple wrote:

LiftedAWDAstro wrote:Have a great trip and Lynne and I will plan camping around your trip next year. We just have to remember.

We made our camping reservations for this weekend at Letchworth the earliest we possibly could,which was last August! The sites seem to fill up fast there,at least for Memorial Day weekend.Not sure the rest of the season.Probably the same for the holiday weekends. Gary you going to be there this weekend ? See you soon Skip!

Going to try to make it on Friday.It's a hr away.Getting a fresh card for the camera and batteries,but with the XP computer still down and this 95 windows computer not able to post pictures,that is where I will be storing the pic's until I get a computer going to post them.

1Gary wrote:

snapple wrote:

LiftedAWDAstro wrote:Have a great trip and Lynne and I will plan camping around your trip next year. We just have to remember.

We made our camping reservations for this weekend at Letchworth the earliest we possibly could,which was last August! The sites seem to fill up fast there,at least for Memorial Day weekend.Not sure the rest of the season.Probably the same for the holiday weekends. Gary you going to be there this weekend ? See you soon Skip!

Going to try to make it on Friday.It's a hr away.Getting a fresh card for the camera and batteries,but with the XP computer still down and this 95 windows computer not able to post pictures,that is where I will be storing the pic's until I get a computer going to post them.

Sounds like fun... Gary will you be driving the LT? See you soon? I'll have to wait and see how things pan out. Jim

You and the bride have a safe trip and happy ballooning my man.
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Met with Skip.Got pic's,but can't post them until I get my XP computer repaired.There is a lot to know about flying these balloons.I had tons of questions for Skip.He explained how the wind can effect the balloon at different heights the direction of the balloon.That there is a meet where guys have to drop a item on a target and if the raised up go in one direction and then lower down to come back to the target.Simple things that where covered during the pilot's meeting of where the outlets of the park bridges are for the chase vehicles.They had a old TV station truck there with the boom the raised up as a weather station with radar and wind speeds.Up to the time I was there they couldn't launch because of wind conditions.

Skip and his wife are really good people and I very much enjoyed the meet.