THE MAGAZINE FOR HOT AIR BALLOONING

April 1998
Volume 13, Number 4

Features

A Guide to Crewing for Hot Air Balloons
Course 118-Refueling. Part of a continuing series on crewing for people new to ballooning.

A Black Tie Affair
Pat and Susan Harwell find a record both can go out and break.

Protecting Your Specially Shaped Balloon
How to get a design patent to protect that special balloon.

Up In Smoke
Peter Krieg brings the old art of smoke ballooning to the Hudson Hot Air Affair.

Bill Murtorff 1934-1998
A tribute to a great friend of ballooning.

Special Report: 13th Annual Balloon Buyer's Guide

Introduction
Aerostar International
Avian Balloon Corporation
The Balloon Works
Cameron Balloons
Eagle Balloons
Fantasy Balloons
Galaxy Balloons
Head Balloons
Lindstrand Balloons USA
National Ballooning, Ltd.
Sky Balloons (US), Inc.
Thunder & Colt Direct
UltraMagic Balloons
Boland Balloon




Checklist

Editor

Calendar

Preflight
News and Information

Balloon Life Marketplace
Products and Services for sale

Balloonmeister
Neida Courtney

Logbook
Celebration, Florida
Port St. Lucie, Florida

Postflight
Charlie Moore's 1949 plastic balloon flight.

Hangar Flying
with George Denniston
Inverted Flight



Cover Photo: Ballooning in Glacier National Park. Well, actually an electonic image of ballooning in the park Photo by: Beth Checkley, Graphic imaging: Ray Yanagisawa, Pilot: Lon T. Clark, Crew Chief: Debi Martin, Foreground balloon: Rainbow Twist, Background balloon: Primorosa.



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