[Balloon-makers] RE: [cloudhoppers] Good news and more good news
David Tanzer & Lori Bottom
davidandlori at gmavt.net
Sun Dec 9 08:31:16 CST 2007
Congratulations, Kasey! Well done! I look forward to seeing your
photos-please do let us know when they're posted. As for your burner issue,
you might try posting this message to the balloon makers list. In fact,
I'll cc this response there, and perhaps someone will have a suggestion.
Regards,
David Tanzer
Charlotte, Vermont
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From: cloudhoppers at yahoogroups.com [mailto:cloudhoppers at yahoogroups.com] On
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Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 2:08 AM
To: cloudhoppers at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [cloudhoppers] Good news and more good news
As of Thursday November 29th, I am now an FAA certified private pilot
for lighter-than-air balloon! After having my student certificate for
6 years I felt it was about time to finally finish it up, so I went
down to Albuquerque New Mexico and took a flight with Ray Bair who
kindly signed me off for my certificate. Since then the weather here
in Wichita has been less than nice. So hopefully soon I can have my
first flight as a pilot!
Secondly, just over a month or so ago, I had my first free-flight in
my 32k trash-can balloon. It was a fantastic flight of about 50
minutes, using less than 7 gallons of fuel, and had perfect
conditions. Near calm on the surface and maybe 15 mph at 500 ft. The
rotation vents work great, but I definately need a scoop or skirt due
to the wind liking to blow the burner flame around on the ground and
when going into different wind currents above. I'll have photos
posted hopefully soon on the Cloudhopper page, as well as my own.
Couple other thoughts on my balloon...
When I lean to one side of the "basket", being soo small, it will
naturally want to tilt a bit with me. However the burner/frame likes
to join in on this tilt, therefore I have to look up and aim the
burner every time to go to burn which is rather annoying. So, I may
try adding some uprights to help with this situation, OR, if anyone
has any ideas as to a rememdy, they would all be greatly welcomed.
I'm still fascinated by flying an actual Hopper. Tank behind me (or
under me), no basket, a nice harness and seat. So Thats also
something I'll likely mess around with trying to put something
together.
My best holiday wishes to all,
Kasey
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