Crew-less in the Midwest
Winter provides some of the best weather opportunities to make a long balloon flight. Despite the lack of crew Kevin Miko took advantage of a "good" weather system. On his way home he took in a safety seminar for desert.

Ballooning into the Sky
John Ninomiya makes the first flight of Don Piccard's Pleiades Seven balloon design.

The Great Fall
An emergency rip-out landing in mountainous terrain during a flight over the Great Wall of China.

Calendar

Preflight
News and Information

Balloon Life Marketplace
Products and Services for sale

Balloonmeister
Carol Weiner

Logbook
Louisville, Kentucky

Freeflight
When you need a Belt
Don Piccard

Hangar Flying
with George Denniston
Becalmed in Connecticut

Cover Illustration: Silver Pleiades, piloted by John Ninomiya, taking off in the high desert of southern California.