John Wise Balloon Society
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If you attended our Safety Seminar in 2004, you had the opportunity to view the "hot off the presses" balloon safety video produced by the FAA in conjunction with several local balloonists. Everyone I spoke to following the showing said how very impressed they were with this product.
The idea of creating a video on balloon safety started in Oct. 1999 after Eileen Indola SPM at the PHL FSDO went for a balloon flight at the EAA Chapter 240 Fly In held at the New Garden Airport. She called and said she had this great ideal. Rich Laning, Greg Wilson, Mike Fairbanks, Jean Eigen, Eileen and I had several meetings during Jan. Feb. & Mar.. After we wrote and re wrote the script, we presented it to Dale Dingale of the FAA Tech. Center ACY . In Aug, they started filming at ACY. Then at the end of the month we completed the additional footage at the small airport that I fly from . Marty & Nancy Varnold are the owners. With other 4 balloons we were able to get together for the flight. Alan Emer did the footage at Hershey in late Oct.. Dale Dingle and his crew did an excellent job on creating this video. As you can see there are a lot of balloonist who participated in this project. I can name them all. Plans call for us to do additional videos: one on propane and refilling after a flight as someone had asked. We will keep you informed. Earl MacPhearson John Wise Member |