Hot Air Balloon Flight Record - 20Oct2019
Graham and Leo

Timing is good and this qualifies as a foliage flight, our area is still rated as peak color. Rudi got back from Albuquerque yesterday to come our, and Bob also flew this morning. Graham and Estelle crewed for us and Graham went up.

Bob was first off, followed by Rudi then Me. Stayed low to the cross runway then climbed to start a right turn to follow Bob and Rudi toward Hudson. Graham took over while I worked on sending Glympse to the crew. Rudi stayed more to the left (S), Bob SW, and we WSW. Overflew Bose and continued to Hudson Rd. Dropped to try for a landing somewhere but kept missing off to the side.

Popped up to shift W toward Lowe's and BJ's but the Lowe's parking lot wasn't empty. Continued across 495 and looked at large fields beyond Orchard Hill Equestrian Center but descended to early and flew over the left edge. Finally approaching Solomon Pond Mall, popped up again to move west enough to land near the rotaries on River Rd. Couldn't find enough left to get east of the road into a parking lot so ended south of Hotel in fallow hay field.

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

• Sunday Morning, Oct 20 Graham and Leo