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BalloonLife,June 1999

June 1999
Volume 14, Number 6

Checklist

The Magazine For HotAir Ballooning

Features

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Editor

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Preflight
NewsandInformation

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Logbook
Bluff, Utah

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Calendar

30

Repair Station
Airworthiness, History, & Paper
Work

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Balloon Life Marketplace
Products andServices for sale

34

FreeFlight
Don Piccard
Mystery Continued

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PostFlight
Letters to the Editor

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Hangar Flying
withGeorge Denniston
On The Edge

Cover Photo:
Bluff, Utah.
Photo: Ron
Behrmann

Special Report: Tragedy inCheju

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TragedyinCheju

An International balloon
eventturns into a disaster.
From from the ashs pilots
have come backwithles-
sons in Pilot Decision Mak-
ing. Warningsignswere
every where. Learn first
hand from participants what
tookplace.

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NoGetOutofJailFree Card
The National Transporation Safety Board makes an interestingruling about
double burnersin a hot air balloonwith regard to 14CFR91.119(a). When
the NTSB ruled against the piloton other violations, he wasnot able to use
hisfilingof anARSP reporttowaive the penalty.

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StateofBallooning
Balloon Life’s review of ballooningin the U.S.:
16Washinton
18Arkansas