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Hot Air Balloon Flight Record - 03Sep2016
Gerry and Doug

Launch:  Stow, MA - Minute Man Air Field   Duration:  1:25
Land:  Hudson, MA   Distance:  5.3
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Map of the flight


This is a Google Earth version of the track and should open in your local Google Earth. For more information or to install Google Earth on your system, go to Google Earth.

Hurricane headed up the coast but Saturday morning looks good for clear sky and light winds. Rudi and Bob are also planning to come out.

We were the last balloon to arrive but managed to catch up so we launched just behind Rudi and Bob. The first stop was a drop into the cross runway clearingbefore climbing to continue SSE. After a while we climbed to turn S and speed up. Climbed a second time to speed up and turn SSW, heading for Collings Foundation.

Bob was out front and dropped into Collings, Rudi was next but too far W to find an E turn toward Collings. I was last and further E but couldn't turn E across the river. While Bob deflated on Collings, Rudi and I continued on S, very slowly.

We were both working hard to get into a grassy lawn at the materials facility just N of Main St. It took a lot of effort but Rudi (Rhonda) got into the adjacent parking area and walked over. We finally got to the top of the gravel mountain at the back side of the grass and walked the balloon down to deflate.

Timelapse Video captured on a static mounted Sony HDR-AS100VR:


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