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Hot Air Balloon Flight Record - 16Nov2013
Sue and Susan

Launch:  Stow MA - Minute Man Airfield   Duration:  1:30
Land:  Acton   Distance:  5.77
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Map of the flight


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Didn't manage a flight during peak foliage, but we are still trying. This weekend looked good for Saturday AM,PM and Sunday AM.

Got to the airport at 6:30 (fall/winter sunrise is much easier than summer!). Bob was already there and starting to setup. Rudi arrived after we started to set up. Bob got off heading NE, we got off a few minutes later, and Rudi a few after that. We all tracked ENE, tracking close to the Acton-Boxboro schools which were too early in the flight.

Crossed Rte 27 at Rte 111 and eased down trying to turn more left (N) and stay close to Rte 27 with an eye toward Acton center. Ended up too far E, crossing the Acton Arboretum older neighborhoods with above ground utilities. Didn't see the Acton Post Office until we were already beside it over the trees. Before getting to Rte 2A we dropped over a yard next to the pond and turned so much we tracked the edge of their tree line, but didn't turn enough to end up back at the Post Office.

Bob had landed in a parking lot across Rte 2A. We climbed to head that way but our parking lot was a car dealership, full of cars. Continued across Rte 2A for a short distance and set down in a large back yard off Strawberry Hill Rd. No one was home so we walked up to the driveway to deflate and pack up. Left Champagne and a card next to their newspaper where they would find it.


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