Ballooning Links
Try out these other ballooning sites!
I apologize for the volume of links, but there a bunch of links that
have ballooning information on them.
I plan to reorganize this page soon to make it easier to
move through all of this.
Until then, have fun!
If you know of a ballooning site not
shown below, click on the mailbox and send us the updates. Many thanks!
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Quick Path
Ballooning Specific Web sites
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is now online at
Aero.com!
NOTE: I believe it costs money to actually get to the online version of
the magazine. There is, however, some other aviation related information scattered
about this site. They do have a few ballooning pics here from Blake Holliday:
a,
b,
c,
d,
e,
f,
g,
h, and
i.
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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
is now online! Great site with lot's of AIBF information and pictures. If you're planning
to go to the "Big One" this year, you MUST check this site out!
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World Hot Air Balloon Championships
in Battle Creek, MI USA is now online! This site will include the latest competition
results! If you can't make it, follow the action here!
Competition begins 1 July and runs through 9 July 1995.
- WWW Ballooning Page.
This site is maintained by Jeff Pestun, of Holland, Michigan, USA.
Jeff has a real passion for competitive ballooning and
he writes a lot about that side of the sport here.
- Morris's Page of Ballooning Info.
Put together by Morris Bitsie, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
This site has quite a few good pictures from ballooning events in New Mexico,
including Albuquerque.
- UK Hot Air Balloon Rides Home Page.
A passenger ride business in the United Kingdom has put together this look at the
commercial side of ballooning.
They've also got some nice
pictures from Albuquerque.
- Frank's Ballooning Page.
Frank Wimler of Fort Collins, CO, USA is building a set of ballooning pages.
Also site of Serenity's
Hot Air Ballooning Home Page.
- The World
of Commercial Ballooning by Jim Whitesell (of The Sky's the Limit
at Aero.com. This site has a number of great special shape
balloon pictures.
- The Wake Up To Missouri U.S. National Ballooning Championships,
in Columbia, MO USA, have two sites with information about the event:
- "The Pre Astronauts: Manned Ballooning
on the Threshold of Space"
This site promotes a new book from Naval Institute Press documents the high-altitude
manned balloon programs of the 1950s and early 1960s. On these Web pages,
built by Ecola Design, author Craig Ryan recalls this era of the true
pioneers of U.S. space exploration. Includes the cover photo, excerpt,
related links, and information about The Naval Institute Press.
- National Balloon Classic in Indianola, IA USA!
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Cornwall Lift-Off in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada!
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Big Skyfest
- Billings, MT USA. Just found this after the event in early August.
- Laura Lofland's Page.
Laura provides a short description of how she's involved in ballooning.
She also has a picture of her husband's (Richard) balloon
Stockwell Fire.
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Saga International Balloon Fiesta. Basically just a picture from the rally (you
can see one of the Pontiac balloons in this one).
"Ferta" is how they spelled "Fiesta", I assumed they meant this.
- Some of Morris' stuff has made its way to
snuggles, including
Red Rock Balloon Rally,
Kodak Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
Oooh, and here's his picture!
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Bradley C. Tressell has a home page at Cornell College in Iowa USA.
He's got a few links and a few balloon pictures.
- Will J. Young
has this site with the address of two hot-air balloon ride companies in Pennsylvania.
This
picture of an Aerostar is included.
- 20th Century Adventures,
in Atlanta, GA USA, uses balloons in their logo, and, they have
pictures of a balloon launch in the Virtual Adventure page!
- Club Maritime,
in San Diego, CA USA, invites you to take a ride in a hot-air balloon.
Here's the
Take a Hot Air Balloon Ride page.
- Rancho Valencia
in San Diego, CA USA, has a picture of their
balloon.
- Part City! Online is the home page
for Park City, UT USA. They use this balloon
picture a lot.
- Christopher J. Lynch has his home page
at the Rochester Institute of Technology in NY USA. He has this
balloon picture.
You can get to his page via
GNN.
- Chuck Niederriter, an Associate Professor
at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN USA, is also a fan of ballooning
and has this balloon picture.
- Southwestern Exposure of NM USA
sells Albuquerque Ballooning Videos.
- Found this neat balloon graphic
at Netcom in San Jose, CA USA.
- Joe's Skydiving Movies has a brief
MPEG of a skydive from
a balloon. It looked a little garbled the last time I checked.
- SkyDance Skydiving
of Davis, CA USA, has
balloon and bungee skydiving packages available!
- Benjamin Franklin as a Scientist
is an online work that includes some details on Franklin's involvement in the first
years of ballooning.
- Here's a grade school lesson
plan on how to build a tissue paper hot-air balloon. This document is garbled at the end.
- The Long Island Home Page
has information on hot-air balloon rides on Long Island, NY USA, through
Adventures Aloft in Deer Park.
- Balloons By-The-Sea in Salinas, CA USA is on the
Play by the Bay page.
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Bristol University Hot Air Ballooning Society (BUHABS) in Bristol, UK.
Several balloon enthusiasts have their own web pages at Bristol University:
- Planet Internet (in the Netherlands)
has a Dutch
Aviation Page that includes links to ballooning information.
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Gray Line of Albuquerque has information on Sunrise Balloon Rides
in Albuquerque, NM USA.
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Aspen Online, in Aspen, CO USA, has this ad for the Unicorn Balloon Company.
This site was also found
here.
- According to
Gossip page from the Sundance Film Festival in Utah,
Mary Louise Parker and Naomi Judd were seen
ballooning in Park City, UT USA on 24 January 1995.
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About Sonomo County Wine Country (Sonomo County, CA USA) mentions
hot-air ballooning as one of the activities you can indulge in there.
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Unicorn Travel (USA) implies that they can book balloon
rides in the Great Plains (USA). Picture included.
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Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists, Part 2/8 mentions the
Ballooning E-Mail Reflector at lut.ac.uk.
This list can also be found via FTP
here at MIT.
- Tour de France
is a site brought to you by the French Embassy in Washington, DC USA,
and is geared to a USA audience. Included on this site are:
- The
Loire Valley - mentions ballooning
as one of the more adventurous leisure activities available there.
- The
Alsace - mentions hot-air ballooning.
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Long Duration Ballooning in Antartica.
- Ken Purchase,
a grad student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
apparently likes hot-air ballooning.
- Simpson College
in Indialola, Iowa USA, mentions hot-air ballooning on their
Metro page.
- Rob's Multimedia Lab
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has the following balloon
pictures:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5.
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Mountainland Recreational Activities, in Utah USA, devotes
a section to Hot-Air Ballooning and gives the phone numbers of area balloon
ride operations.
- Edge of Space Sciences (EOSS) Home Page
- about high altitude unmanned balloons and amateur radio.
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CLARC Balloon Launch NOSTS-1 - Clear Lake Amateur Radio Club's first
unmanned balloon launch.
- Ottawa (ONT Canada) from the air
- a view of Ottawa from a hot air balloon.
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Recreation in the Gunnison Country - right at the top
of this page is information about Big Horn Balloon Company
in Crested Butte, CO USA.
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The Oak Leaf Online, September 8, 1994 - this online newspaper has an
article about ballooning in the Napa Valley in California USA.
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About Sonoma County Wine Country - Sonoma County, CA USA mentions hot
air ballooning in that area.
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Tripfinder, by Travel Data Network (based in Dallas, TX USA),
can, apparently, set up a hot air balloon adventure for you.
- Branch Mall has an entry in
the Gifts, Toys, Decorations section for
Hot Air Balloon Rides
over Michigan. This can also be found
here.
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More Than Enough Hot Air To Get This Thing Off The Ground!, not
a balloon site, but they start with a cute graphic.
- Sweda watches Montgolfier Hot Air
Balloon Race in June, a graphic from Italy.
- Sean Murphy,
of Elk Mound High School in Eau Claire, WI USA, likes hot air balloons.
Apparently his dad is a pilot and owns
this balloon.
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Bellingham & Whatcom Community Info, in WA USA, mentions
a hot air balloon festival there.
- NPSARC Annual Events
talsk about Hot Air Affair, an event at Lugan Seca Raceway in
Southern California USA. This site is mirrored
here.
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Help! Hot Air Balloon in the Power Line. A humorous piece about,
not balloons, but an Apple-IBM joing venture.
- ARC Homepage,
in Florida USA, mentions Dr. Divot's Hot Air Balloons.
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The 19th Hole * Golf Image Archive has this
Camelback Golf Club balloon picture.
- William LeFebvre's
Pilot Log Summary - he has 0.3 hours of flight time in balloons!
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Temecula, California Economic Development Corporation has a picture
from their balloon rally here.
- Antti Uusi-Rauva
of Finland, got a balloon ride for his 50th birthday, and pictures are posted
at this site.
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Calistoga (California USA) Things To Do features a picture of the Calistoga balloon
and tells you who to contact in the Calistoga area for ballooning.
- Honda Homepage features a balloon
event picture with the Honda Balloon.
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Stratos, in Norway, has a neat graphic. I don't speak
Norwegian, so I'm not sure what this page is about. Any ideas?
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The History of Aviation Collection at Sprague Library,
Claremont College, has a few early balloon texts.
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Blimps-R-Us!!! features some information about blimps.
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Michael and Jennifer Parks home page. Some good balloon pictures here!
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Supreme Travel Services, of Austin, TX USA, offers a
European Ballooning travel package
from Buddy Bombard European Balloon Adventures.
- The Wine Events Guide
did mention the Temecula Balloon & Wine Festival back in April 1995. Maybe it will
mention it again next year.
- Napa Valley
February Events 1996 discusses the Napa Valley Balloon Invitational Tournament.
They have an interesting team competition.
- Mrs. Collins'
Internet Research Project Group, at Hillside Elementary School in Cottage
Grove, MN USA,
uses a view balloon pictures. Select the Home Pages links here to
see the pictures.
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AIRSHIP - The Home Page for Lighter-Than-Air Craft and
ZEPPELIN - The Home Page for Luftshibau Zeppelin -
John Dziadecki - Louisville, CO USA.
- Airships archive,
at Cal Tech, includes some hot-air balloon and blimp pictures.
- Tour Okanagan Magazine, British
Columbia, Canada, features a nice balloon graphic at the top, and mentions
a balloon rally in Armstrong.
- New Brunswick
Value Vacation Packages (Canada) has a picture from a balloon rally.
The picture is use to point to outdoor adventure information.
- Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists
is an excellent site for searching for mailing lists. The Balloon mail reflector
is there under aviation.
- F5JTL/WX3W Home Page
has a link to the Morris KAIBF page.
- Bhushan's Home Page
has this great
picture from KAIBF in 1994.
- K.U. Leuven,
in Belgium, has this
aviation site list
that includes ballooning.
Deze pagina is ook in het Nederlands beschikbaar.
- Tom's Aviation Page,
in Belgium, has a link to ballooning information.
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Digital Missourian has occasional
articles concerning the upcoming National Hot Air Balloon Championships.
Here is the current list:
- Sedona, Arizona's
Open Mind Resource Guide includes an
Outdoor Adventures
page that includes information about Sky High Balloon Adventures.
- Here's a
balloon picture.
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The Risks Digest Volume 14: Issue 28 has a blurb called
about the 1993 Earthwinds balloon crash.
- Sunshine Adventures
sells Hot Air Balloon rides in the Oakdale, CA USA area.
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Other Things to do in Steamboat Springs, CO USA. This site lists several
balloon ride businesses in the area.
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Digital Stock Active Lifestyles mentions ballooning as one of the items you might
see in a photo collection (I think).
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Internet Phonecard Competition #2 has as a 2nd prize, a Phonecard with hot air
balloons feature on it. Answer the question (which relates to ballooning!) and
you're eligible to win!
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Competition Page at WWWeb_Guides, has a competition (and prize) that
involves a balloon flight. This site also includes a page for
The Windemere Balloon Company in Ulverston, UK.
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Homebuilt Home Page, by Kevin R. Walsh, has a blurb about Ballooning
on his
Books &
Magazines page. In particular, he mentions the Balloon Builders Journal.
- Terrell Publishing Home Page
has a listing for Ron Behrmann's 1996 Hot Air Ballooning calendar.
It includes a large JPEG of the cover.
- Tamara Preston Boyd, of Albuquerque, NM USA
has links to a couple of balloon pages, including Ballooning Online!
Thanks Tamara!
- Ken Purchase, of Urbana, IL USA,
mentions that he enjoys hot air ballooning.
- Mike Crider's Exciting
HomePage, of Hope College in Holland, MI USA, includes a link to Jeff Pestun's
ballooning page.
- Bert's Lab Show,
at the University of Durham (UK), mentions someone there who is into hot air
ballooning.
- "Alva, That Vanderbilt-Belmont Women",
a site devoted to the book about Alva Vanderbilt-Belmont, one of the wealthiest women
in America in the early 1900's. She apparently involved herself in ballooning at one time.
- Marli, in Christchurch,
New Zealand, apparently mentions ballooning. I couldn't verify this on 19 June 1995,
but will try again later.
- O.A.R.S. California River
Adventures mentions hot air ballooning as an option on one of the excursions.
- Balloon For Sale
at this site.
- It's Happening! Listings by Topic
- It's Happening! EventsLINK
- Decatur, GA USA - includes several links to balloon event information.
- World Wide Web of Sports
- Cambridge, MA USA - includes a couple sport ballooning links, including Ballooning Online!
- Anders Lennartsson of Sweden has
a few pictures of hot air airships (Swedish and English)
- WWWF Grudhe Match
- A fictional tale of a hot-air balloon race around the world between Howard Stern and Rush
Limbaugh.
- grafitti is Gerry Graff's home page
from Alburquerque, NM USA. Include some links and a picture.
- Yahoo - Recreation:Aviation:Ballooning
- Yahoo
Ballooning Specific Gopher Sites
Ballooning Specific FTP Sites
- Hot Air Balloon mail-reflector FTP site.
A site in the United Kingdom hosts this FTP site that includes balloon pictures and
a "balloon stuff for sale" list called
Zebedee.
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UUCP map.
This file is a UUCP map from Rutgers University. It includes a couple of balloon
entries based in Indianola, IA USA. Both appear to be maintained by
Jon W. Backstrom. Anybody know anything about these sites?
Ballooning Specific E-Mail Reflectors
- Ballooning Mail Reflectors.
There are also a number of mail-reflectors that cover ballooning topics. Go here to
see the list and mail a subscription request if you like!
General Aviation Web Sites
General Aviation Gophers
Usenet Groups
Ballooning Online!
Eric E. Goodson eric@nando.net
Created: 22 March 1995 - Last update: 10 August 1995.
