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anthony777.. sounds like something else near and dear to our hobbyist collector hearts as well!!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]they are beautiful and entertaining yet deceptively dangerous [/QUOTE]
 
Brooklands said:
I was out there during the Balloon Fiesta last October. Rain kept the balloons down a good part of the time. It is so sad to hear about a tragedy there this year. My heart and prayers go out to all impacted by this.
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In October 2004, I was volunteering at the funnel cake booth for a breast cancer fund raiser when this happened right before my eyes (I took this picture from the Funnel Cake vendor booth). Thankfully, the pilot nad his passenger (a young boy or 11 or 12) survived but had to climb down the very high radio tower in high winds.
 

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BIBBER said:
anthony777.. sounds like something else near and dear to our hobbyist collector hearts as well!! oh bibber, not just our hearts but also the right rear pocket of the pants we may be wearing at any given moment, as in r.r. jeans pocket most standard location to enable the transfurance of ones wallet!, while at school we were invited to assist several women from long island whom had very recently constructed a balloon and its basket in a large grassy field adjesent to our building seems it had to be certified, boy those ladies did a beautiful job building it, must have been 60-80 of us trying to help, they kept giving it blasts of gas with no results it just laid there limp when all of a sudden it leapt into the air, while holding one of the lines it lifted myself and four other people 35 - 40 feet in the air, for what seemed a life time that's when i knew ballons was not my "thang"
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[quote they are beautiful and entertaining yet deceptively
dangerous. [/quote]

Thats the best dscription of these LBC's I have heard to date.---Keoke
 
good morning welcome to buzzy's foreign car parts what can we do for you today? - i need a control arm - for what car? - its a 63 "deceptively dangerous" - sure we got them, gimmy a sec. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
> ... they are beautiful and entertaining yet deceptively dangerous.

You know our ex-wives ? !
 
I've flown a lot of different AC. Each had a stick or wheel, rudder pedals and a throttle. Balloons don't have those. I've never been up in one and don't care if I ever do! I want to be able to control when and where I land. I don't trust my fate to Mother Nature. But, every person has a right to his or her own poison. I guess their safer than bungee jumping, especially if the chord stretches a little to much.
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