All about hot air balloons and ballooning.
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Why do you fly a balloon ? - I have been asked to describe a balloon ride to folks who have never had the experience. I, in turn, have asked many of our first timers to explain what it felt like to them. The collection of ideas, comments and feelings is wonderful!
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Interactive Balloon Ride - Experience a hot air balloon ride from the comfort of your own computer chair. You pick directions and altitude and see the results during a flight over the Shasta Valley of northern California.
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Up, up, and away, once the weather allows - Colorful article by a Boston Globe reporter on finding and taking his first balloon ride. Nervous at first, he soon gets it: "A balloon is massive, silent, and seems to make a counterintuitive statement about gravity. There is something magical about it." Features lots of detail, and an accompanying photo gallery.
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A First Balloon Ride - Here's a blog entry detailing a typical experience of a first balloon ride at a small balloon festival. The narrator does a great job describing what goes on throughout the flight, and every step is illustrated with clear photos.
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Gravity, Heaven - Jeff Schmerker, Utah's Travel Writer, takes a ride in a hot air balloon in Park City Utah.
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High Hopes Balloon Festival - Our Ride - Follow along with this couple as they relate details of their balloon flight at a southern New Hampshire balloon rally. Clear pictures illustrate each step, and they even flew over their sister's house.
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New Middle East Magazine - Article on a flight over Wadi Rum in the Royal Jordanian air balloon during the festival celebrating the King's birthday.
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Up, Up And Away! -- TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Aug. 19, 2002 - The beauty and camaraderie of hot-air ballooning allow fans and their spirits to soar. Time Magazine article on ballooning with an emphasis on people in their 50s.
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My First Balloon Flight - Until January I knew nothing about hot air ballooning but had often wondered what it would be like to float above land transported only by wind power. When I was invited by a friend to go ballooning in Austria I jumped at the opportunity. If conditions were not suitable for flying - I would be happy to go skiing instead.
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