THE MAGAZINE FOR HOT AIR BALLOONING

August 1997
Volume 12, Number 8

Features

A Guide to Crewing for Hot Air Balloons
Course 111-Leaving the Launch Site. Part of a continuing series on crewing for people new to ballooning.

Celebrating Small Town America
Madras, Oregon's Collage of Culture.

Snake in the Basket
Urban myth or ture story? Who has the better story to tell, the occupants of the basket or the snake?.

News Over Sao Paulo
Rubic Balloons builds a newspaper special shape balloon and flies it over Sao Paulo, Brazil to celebrate the city's 443rd anniversary.

The Classic Balloon Festival
Danville, Illinois begins its second decade of balloon event innovation.

Special Report: Chase Vehicle Art

Art of the Chase
Dreaming of a beautiful ballooning mural to accent your chase vehicle? Balloon Life interviews a balloon vehicle artist and gets his tips.

Miller's Game
How many items can you find? is the question Earl Miller ask's kids who explore the art work on his chase commander. It is an educational game that combines ballooning and conversation of the environment.





Checklist

Editor

Calendar

Preflight
News and Information

Repair Station
Acceptable Damage

Balloon Life Marketplace
Products and Services for sale

Balloonmeister
David Eastland

Logbook
Culiacan, Mexcio
Windsor, California
Ljubjana, Solvenia

Freeflight
Going to the Source
Christine Kalakuka

Postflight
Letters to the Editor

Hangar Flying
with George Denniston
IFR (Into Fog, Regrettably)



Cover Illustration: Lurpak's new Butter package flying over the Tower of London. Built by Cameron Balloons, the package would contain enough butter for 539 million slices of toast. Photo by Terry R Duffell



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