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Balloon Life,October 2000

October 2000
Volume 15, Number 10

Checklist

The Magazine For Hot Air Ballooning

Features

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Editor

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Preflight
NewsandInformation

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Calendar

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Repair Station
Dunking for Dollars or Support
Your Local Repair Station

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Balloon Life Marketplace
Products andServices for sale

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Logbook
Plainville, Connecticut

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Hangar Flying
withGeorge Denniston
His First Flight

Cover Photo:
Laurent Lajoye and
Christophe Houver
minutesafter
landing in France
Photo: Denis
Bomer

Special Report: French Cross the Atlantic

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Roziere FliesHometoFrance
Working with a small budget and almost no experience two French aeronauts,
Laurent Lajoye and Christophe Houver, become the first French team to cross
the Atlantic by balloon. Flying a Lindstrand built Roziere style balloon the two
also set a new duration record for category size. Reporting forBalloon Life on
this historic achievement is Philippe Buron-Pilatre, a descendant for Pilatre de
Rozier, the French aeronaut who first fly a mixed gas balloon more than two-
hundredyearsago, photographs by Denis Bomer.

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2000CanadianHotAir BalloonChampionships
Held inconjunction withthe Christie St-Jean-sur-RichelieuHot Air Balloon
Festival, 11Canadianpilotscompeted for the Canadian hotair balloon
championship.

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StateofBallooning
Balloon Life’s review of ballooningin the U.S.:
16New Mexico
20Maryland

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SummerBallooninginthe West
Balloon Life contributing editor andstaff photographer visitseight western
balloon events.