While flying over an Ohio band camp practice, hearing a director say, “Dammit, just put your instruments down and watch the balloon. You guys obviously can’t concentrate!”
Landing a Hot Air Balloon into a field, then to be surrounded by grumpy bulls. The farmer wasn’t grumpy, and convinced the obviously hungry bulls that the basket was not a new way to package hay.
Flying over nude sunbathers. Is there anything better than watching them run?
Landing and deflating a Hot Air Balloon in the rear of a 500 acre, gated (and locked) cemetery. Thankfully, the Middletown Ohio Police Department had a key, smiles, and a quick response time!
Cruising by a newly built country home in a hot air balloon in Lebanon, OH, admiring the floor to ceiling glass windows one the second floor and noticing the completely naked man standing there admiring us.
Landing a Hot Air Balloon on a 30 x 30 ft stone island in the middle of an abandoned, flooded rock quarry to make a restroom stop. The student pilot’s landing was artful, and after 2 tall coffees and 45 minutes of flying in 28 degrees, a thing of beauty.
While a group of firefighters were practicing rappelling, one managed to yell to the pilot and bet the approaching hot air balloon team that it couldn’t land its basket in the rear of his buddy’s pick-up truck…he was wrong.
Realizing that in-flight beverage service was not available, the pilot asked the crew chief to get a cup of hot coffee and stand in the park 1/2 mile ahead, holding the coffee above his head, only to hand directly to one of the passengers in the balloon flying by!
While traveling eastbound flying past a man cooking on his grill we asked if dinner was ready? He said no, but he’ll cook more for us tomorrow if we “drop in”. The next night, while traveling westbound we landed in the same man’s yard. We turned down dinner…but it had to be fate!!
Flying near Wright-Patterson AFB, a passenger asked, “how close will that huge cargo plane come to us?”. The picture says it all!
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