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2011 Wah Chang Art and Air Festival
Friday, August 26- Sunday, August 29, 2011
Timber Linn Park, Albany, OR
Radio Ray to Broadcast
Live From Hot Air Balloon
Friday, 8/26 during the Morning Update
Join us at the 2011 Wah Chang Art and Air Festival
Albany’s Signature Event with Free Family Fun!
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.
Download and/ or listen to free mp3 of live radio broadcast from thousands of feet altitude.
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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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