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Old 07-12-2017, 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by ColdNoMore View Post
Sounds like fun.

I've made the International Balloon Festival in Abq. a number of times and it is a pretty amazing sight watching all those balloons firing up in the dark...then rising just as the sun is peeking over the Sandia's.
It is worthwhile. I have seen and heard hot air balloonists flying over my home there many times.

A friend of mine has flown his Piper Cub to Oshkosh several times. In the USAF he flew a huge tanker!
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