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Balloon Life,January 2000

January2000
Volume 15, Number 1

Checklist

The

MagazineFor

HotAirBallooning

Features

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Editor

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Preflight
NewsandInformation

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Calendar

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Balloon Life Marketplace
Products andServices for sale

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Logbook
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Reno, Nevada
Pendleton, Oregon

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Hangar Flying
withGeorge Denniston
White Water Rafting

Cover Photo:
60 balloons
countdownthe last
60 seconds of 1999.
Photo: Andrew
Rafkind©, courtesy
City of Boise

Special Report:1990s - A Retrospective

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HowWe Did
Ten years agoBalloon Life made somepredictions for the coming decade. Here
what we said.

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1990s,ALookBack
Some of the people, events, andplaces thatmade a markon the 1990s.

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SafetyandRecurrencyGoHandinHand
By the time you have completed yourPrivate Pilot training, you are really close
to being as good as you are going to get unless you get it in your mind that you
can be better, want to be better, and force some instructor to help you get better.

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StateofBallooning
Balloon Life’s review of ballooningin the U.S.:
22Hawaii
23South Carolina

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BalloonLife1999Index
Complete listof articles andnews inBalloon Lifein 1999.

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Countdownto2000
Boise, Idahoinvites60 balloonists for a unique countdownto the year 2000.