2. Airplanes

1984-1995 Balloonatic Days

A gallery of fun shots from my first days in ballooning in 1984 until I left Dallas in 1995 and the fun stopped. (Well, that kind of fun, anyway.) I still miss the smell of propane and the tang of a chilled glass of champagne in the morning. Ah, those were the days!
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    DOUG ONE HAVING FUN Hey, what else can you do in this situation, except contemplate abandoning ship to relieve the balloon of some weight. I was just about to do just that when I noticed us starting to gain some altitude. After we broke the surface tension of the water, we shot up into the air like a rocket. I'm glad I stayed in.
    EYE-IN-THE-SKY I can't remember if this is a news chopper or the police chopper, but both were looking around for the balloon that "crashed into Lake Ray Hubbard" as one commuter put it. My dad heard all about it on the news radio and wondered if I knew who the people were. Imagine his amusement to find out it was his very own son!
    FALCON'S LAIR Mesquite, Texas - 1986