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Hot Air Balloon Flight Record - 25-26Aug2018
Jake and Ron | Linda and Robert | Carlos and Glenn

Launch:  Plainville, CT - Norton Park   Duration:  1:15 | :40 | 1:05
Land:  Southington | Local | Robertson   Distance:  2.40 | 2.35 | 2.35
Link To: Plainville Hot Air Balloon Festival
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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.

After several weekends of rain, we have a good forecast for Plainville.

Saturday morning was forecast light to the north. Took off early in the pack and headed slowly south! The rest of the pack stayed low and followed. Stayed west of Queen St, flying over the old Pratt & Whitney buildings, saying hi to the roof repair crew. Continued to BJ's and made a short loop back over the gas station before landing in the parking lot.

Saturday evening was a bit windy, but eventually dropped in time for a flight. This time we did go north, but couldn't get enough east turn for the airport. Stayed close to RT177 and eventually landed just north of Northwest DR in an open parking lot.

Sunday morning was again light to the north. This time there was a fast turn toward the east up higher. We initially stayed close to RT177, playing for a while in the marsh just north of RT72. Climbed to head toward Robertson airport, crossing over the runway before descending to fly west back across the airport to land in the industrial parking log just outside the west fence.

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


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