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BalloonLife,September 1999

September 1999
Volume 14, Number 9

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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Balloon Life Marketplace
Products andServices for sale

34

Logbook
Goshen, Connecticut
Poughkeepsie, New York

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Freeflight
Don Piccard
Free Balloons

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Hangar Flying
withGeorge Denniston
The Key to a Good Landing

Cover Photo:
Joe Heartsill makes
analmostdead
center gravity drop
enroute to his third
NationalChampion-
ship.
Photo: Dean
Ekdahl

SpecialReport: US Nationals

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Fire onthePrairie
The 1999 US National HotAir BalloonChampionshipreturn to Rantoul,
Illinois.

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InterviewwithCheri White
Balloon Life talks with the firstUS National Women’s Hot Air Balloon
Champion.

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Reviews
America’s Daredevil Balloonist, W. H. Donaldson, 1840-1875
Beautiful Year Ballooning- 2000Calendar byRonBehrmann

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StateofBallooning
Balloon Life’s review of ballooningin the U.S.:
12Connecticut
14Utah

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NationalBalloonClassic
Indianola hosts the NorthCentralRegional Championshipandclosesout
three decades of hostinga major balloon event.

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ThunderbirdBalloon Classic
This November the Thunderbird Balloon Classic will hold its Silveranniversary,
raising money for theAmerican Graduate School of International Management
inGlendale, Arizona.

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Aztec Gods
AncientAztec godsof daylight anddarkness fly over Santa Cecilia
Acartitlán andinto history. A paintingby artistandballoonistJoe
Mussulman.