As with the past 5 years, we spent Labor Day weekend in Brookfield, MO at the Great Pershing Balloon Derby. This was the 34th year for this derby, and it's the longest running BFA competition in the US. We started the derby Saturday morning with a beautiful 4 part task from the launch field. Here are a few of our friends inflating for this beautiful flight. First we have Tim Graham in Still No Regrets, Andrew James in Godzilla, Matthew Riley in Cherry Bomb and Gary Whitby in Boomer.
What a beautiful sight. Here we see our friend Lynn McVay in Skydreamer (3rd balloon from left)
I love when all the balloon cluster together.
After a small incident Saturday evening at the glow, our friend Jim Wolters needed a balloon to fly, and we happened to have our system there and ready to go. Kenny got to fly with Jim for Sunday morning's competition. They scored 5th for the morning.
Here they are hovering over the target, making a great throw. After that, Kenny got to take over the burner and get his high speed landing in.
Unfortunately I was not there to see that very fast landing, I think he looked for the most remote field he could find to land.
Here they are hovering over the target, making a great throw. After that, Kenny got to take over the burner and get his high speed landing in.
Unfortunately I was not there to see that very fast landing, I think he looked for the most remote field he could find to land. The rest of the weekend ended up very windy and we were unable to get any more flights in, but we did have a great time. Looking forward to the 35th Great Pershing Balloon Derby when we will hopefully be able to enter our own balloon, with Kenny Jay as the pilot.
Congrats to Jeremy Rubin for his big win on this derby.
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