May 26, 2010

The short sunset flight.

The radar was clear and the weather briefer confirmed my findings, but after we launched from the east side of Morse Lake I quickly saw the rain falling about 20 miles north.  We always fly with safety in mind so I told the passengers we would be fine, but I would owe them a future ride. We landed 20 minutes later in a nice neighborhood on the west side of the lake and got the balloon packed away without getting wet.   It did take Bob and Taylon a little while to find us.

May 23, 2010

We took out Inflated Ego for an evening flight taking up our friends Bridget & Ernie. We launched from the church on 86^th & Carroll flying over Geist and landing in Noblesville.  Brian, Hazel and Bridget’s daughter crewed.  Airtime 1 hour

May 23, 2010

Great Sunrise Engagement flight with Brian and Mallory.  She was lost for words when Brian asked the question. You have to watch the video link below. Erik, Tyler and Bob crewed and Tyler took some great pictures! We launched from MT Comfort Airport and landed in Pendleton.  Air time 1:15

May 22, 2010

Eight balloons flew together this day for a sunset from the church at 146^th & Hazel Dell. With William and Jessica in the basket we flew to the east flying for 1 & 25 minutes landing on Howe Rd just north of 238 in a small neighborhood.  Thanks for crewing Bob and Beth.

May 19, 2010

Happy Birthday 11^th birthday to Sam!  This was her birthday gift from mom and dad who flew along also.

  Well the day sure didn’t look like we would fly and though there were clouds above us at 3,000 feet we still had a wonderful sunset flight.  During the flight the clouds did clear for us.  We launched from the firehouse on Olio Road and landed in a neighborhood almost in Westfield.

The Hogshire’s were wonderful passengers during our 1:15 flight.

Thanks Bob, Beth & Erik for crewing!

May 15, 2010

Nice sunrise flight with both of our balloons in the air on Saturday morning. We took off from Beer Slide west of Morse Lake and landed west of 32 off of 31.  We went to 5200 feet (1 mile) during the flight.  Thank you to the Sinclair’s for flying with us.  We were in the air for 1:40.

Crew included Hazel, Brian & Hazel.   Bob and Brad flew Inflated Ego.

May 9, 2010, Sunrise

Well the weather finally allowed us to get of the ground at the INDY 500 Centennial Balloon event. We were weather out both Friday and Saturday and for both glows.  But on Sunday 33 balloons took to the sky from the track and headed south and a bit to the east. The target was near SR37 and Harding Street just south of 465. We managed to throw our baggie and placed 16^th…131 feet from the target.  We then went on to fly for another 30 minutes landing at Perry Meridian High School.  1:05 air time.

Thanks for crewing..Bob, Scott, Brain, Alan & Beth.

April 28th.
Sunset flight Over Geist with Shirley & Terry. We launched from the school on 82nd Street just west of Sergeant Rd. Our goal was to fly over the passenger’s house on Geist. Though we didn’t go right over we did get to see their house from the balloon.
We landed in a small neighborhood just east of Carroll Rd south of 96th Street. We were able to give tether rides to the folks of the neighborhood before packing the balloon away. 1:10 air time.

Thanks Bob and Brian for crewing!

April 20, 2010

We took up one of the crew guys (Alan) and his friend Rose. Rose actually thought she was coming out to crew, but while the balloon was inflating I told her Alan was taking her up for her birthday. Her birthday isn’t until next week, but I didn’t want to pass a perfect day to fly.

We launched from Noblesville Elementary in very calm winds. We headed south along SR 37 at which time we dropped toy parachutes from 3800 feet. Both Alan and Rose watched the parachutes until they hit the ground about 30 minutes later.
The winds were so calm we began hovering over a neighborhood bringing out many folks to watch. We started to make an approach on a cul-de-sac and the winds shifted back and we went over a house and landed right in front of it in the street. Perfect landing with at least 50 there to watch and enjoy.

On the way back we picked up one of the toy parachutes, first time for that

Thanks to Bob, Scott and Will for crewing…And Alan and Rose you got to fly and crew.

April 18th, 2010
After a month of planning with our passenger Steven we finally got to the special day. We were schedule for the evening before, but the winds just didn’t work out. We meet Steven and his then girlfriend Gina at Hamilton Town Center at 6:15am. She was very surprised about the balloon ride. We made our way to Lapel High School to launch the balloon.

Today was going to be a very special day. The plan was to practice dropping baggies on an X to get ready for this year’s upcoming rallies. Well that is the story we told Gina. We had a perfect launch and went to 2000 feet. We began conversing with the crew (BOB & BRIAN) to let them know where they should place the X. We aborted the first location and went for selection #2 in a neighborhood. The crew spread out the rectangle shaped X that measures 4’ x 30’. How can an X be rectangle? Well it was actually a banner that read “WILL YOU MARRY ME?” When Gina first saw the banner she read it as “WILL YOU MAKE ME”, but she quickly realized what it said and turned to Steven. Of course I got out of their way the best I could giving them some private time after that.

After some tears a YES and a few pictures we continued our 1:25 minute flight landing at MT Comfort Airport for a great landing.

Check out the little video we created.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gK06zLoWkg

Congradulations to the newly engaged couple!