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Join us at the 2008 Wah Chang Art and Air Festival
Friday, August 22- Sunday, August 24, 2008
Timber Linn Park, Albany, OR
Live Radio Broadcast From Hot Air Balloon
Friday, 8/22 start at 6:06 am
Albany’s Signature Event with Free Family Fun!
Children’s Art Village presented by Central Willamette Community Credit Union
Live Radio Broadcaste from Hot Air Ballon, Friday 6am
Hot-Air Balloon Launches Friday, Saturday and Sunday Morning At 6:45 Am
Balloon Night Glow with Laser Light Show (Friday 8/22 dusk)
Curtis Salgado On The Selco Festival Stage During Night Glow (Friday 8/22)
Airplanes Fill With Sky With Free Young Eagles Flights (Children 8-17)
More Than 70 Juried Art & Craft Vendors with live artist demonstrations
Two Classic Car Shows Saturday And Sunday presented by Lassenn
Microbrew & Wine Garden
Little River Band, Main Stage, Saturday, August 23rd, 8pm
Audio (MP3 Files) and Pictures from 2007 Wah Chang Art and Air Festival
Live Radio Broadcast From Hot Air Balloon at 2000+ feet
Audio and Pictures from 2007 Wah Chang Art and Air Festival Balloon Launch, Friday, August 24th, 6am - 8:15am. The launch site is Timberlinn Park in Albany, Oregon home of the annual event.
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Broadcast Segment 1- (6:15am) Pre Balloon Launch from launch site at Timberlinn Park. Balloon owner Randall Fuehrer was the Pilot for the flight of the balloon Magic. Randall is from McMinnville and runs the company Outback Balloon LLC. Randall is a FAA Hot Air Balloon Commercial Pilot and a FAA Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic. We discuss the weekend events and can hear the burners lighting up. {Length 3m:56s}
Broadcast Segment 2- (6:38am) First of the balloons being launched and prepping his balloon for takeoff within minutes. {Length 3:24}
Broadcast Segment 3- (approximately 6:45am) Broadcast during the actual launch, up, up and away. Describing the view from 1500 feet of Scio, Lebanon, the Coast Range right over the city of Albany. {Length 3:59}
Broadcast Segment 4- (7:13am) Broadcast from over 2380 feet, south of Highway 34, west of Highway 99E, Southwest of Tangent. We discussed with the pilot, Randall Fuehrer, his balloon size, how he started in the balloon business, his hot air balloon capacity, typical flight length, balloon capacity, FAA Certification, the chase crew, and his company Outback Balloon, LLC {Length 6:03}
Broadcast Segment 5- (8:06am) Broadcast from ground at landing site in a Farmers Field, Southwest of Shedd, about 1 mile Northeast of the Mill in Halsey. We discussed the rough landing, going sideways in the farmers field.{Length 5:18}
A special thanks to my Pilot Randall Fuehrer who not only is a great Hot Air Balloon Pilot but a great guy!
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Pictures from the Event Broadcast
Google Earth Map of the Balloon Travel Route
Information about event including concert schedule and Albany Airport Activities
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Pictures from the Broadcast
Each of the pictures below are available in high-resolution. To view high-resolution picture just click on the thumbnail picture.
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Balloon Crew and Pilot(r)Randall Fuehrer prepare the balloon, Magic, installing the burner.
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Balloon basket is laid down in preparation of connection to the balloon.
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First Balloon launched from Timberlinn Park.
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While second balloon is inflating the first rises above the park.
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The balloon is unrolled.
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Balloon is initially inflated with large fan then filled with hot air (see basket and blower prepped for this process above).
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More balloons inflate, minutes from launch.
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Up, Up and Away.
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Balloon Magic is ready for Jim Willhight to board for the in-flight live radio broadcast.
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View of South Albany looking southwest. Note balloons below and Highway 99-E to the right.
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View of two balloons and field south of Albany.
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View north. I-5 is to the right. Albany Airport and Home Depot are right (upper center).
Lexington is in the center. Millersburg, Wah Chang and Weyerhaeuser Mill in upper center.
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View to Northeast (toward Crabtree and Scio) of ground fog.
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View west of Mary's Peak and Corvallis (smoke stacks).
Target Distribution center is in lower right.
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View west of Shedd as we lower altitude in preparation of landing.
Highway 99-e runs left to right in upper center of picture.
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No safe landing side near Shedd so we landed several miles further Southwest with the final landing spot northwest of the Halsey mill.
A surface wind caused us to be pulled along the ground sideways (hang on for dear life) for the rough, but fun landing.
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We went up to about 2800 feet during the flight which from start to finish was was about 16+ miles (we did zig zag adding more distance). Check out the Google Earth view of the start and end points below.
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Google Earth Map of Balloon Launch and Landing Points
Click on image for larger view
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Launch Location at Timberlinn Park in Albany
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Landing Location between Halsey and Shedd
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Balloon Trip Route
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Images from Google Earth, (c), Google, Inc.
Audio Podcast of this live broadcast, pictures and web page coding by
Willhight Programming and Web Services
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