...nother person to contact would be Don Piccard of Minneapolis, MN..
long time now and has a vast wealth of ballooning knowledge which you should tap into. Tell him 'Rat' sent ya!
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...l dark. I have golfed in High Level( about 300 miles north of us) at close to midnight. Summers are great for ballooning and if the wind stays down 8:00 PM liftoffs are common. The terrain is rolling ...
...elling may not be correct) and built by Aerostar, then called Raven. if you can find old (Seventys) issues of Ballooning Journal you will find an article on the system. A friend of mine took a ride in...
...tween bursts of air. I've seen this done, and it's very good. Steve Fossett used a solenoid for his ballooning attempt, if I remember correctly.
As for information, I suspect you can typ...
...side note, Aircotec was once the same company as Flytec, the other manufacturer of phantastic variometers and ballooning instruments. The compnay split into two when one of the owneres wanted simple i...