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To Celebrate the release of the 20th balloon built under the AMBalloons flag, This section of my site will be devoted to the Pilots and balloons now `out and about' hopefully getting plenty of flying hours around the world. Send in your pictures and let us share your experiences, in building and flying your model balloons. Steve Cook Henlow, UK. AM7-50 and Basket Steve is a regular face on the UK ballooning seen and keen to make Sackville lodge (which hosts the `grass roots' balloon meet), a key event in the summer calendar for both man carrying balloons and models alike. After some 20 years of playing with big balloon Steve got in touch with me and we began an ambitious project to assemble an envelope, basket, burner and fuel system. Always up for a challenge and with the support of Neal Tasker we set about delivering the first AMBalloons `full kit`. Steve has now taken delivery of a second model - a white, yellow and blue modelballoons.com envelope and basket which he has plans to renovate in the coming weeks and months. ...................................................................................... Kevin James Bath, UK. AM7-50 If your going to meet up with another balloonist in the UK Bristol's Ashton Court has to be one of the best places to go. Kevin is a regular there having attended many of the summer balloon festivals to be held in the park. We met for the first time at Ashton Court when I hand delivered the kit on the day after the `Gordon Bennett' Gas balloon launch of 2010. Kevin is an Aerospace Engineer with Airbus so we have plenty of shared experiences having worked for the company for 12 years myself. Kevin has built the envelope and basket himself and combined it with Bolling single burner. The project has been on hold for a while he tells me he has been busy building a gas balloon !!!!! Welcome to the `team' Kevin, nice balloon. ........................................................................................ Robert Eardley Leicester, UK, AM7-40 Joining the world of model balloons for the first time, by building his own envelope (well done) Robert hopes to use the balloon as a platform for his photography work. The balloon is 95% white with a single row of mixed colours, hopefully worth a photo or two :-) ........................................................................................ Neal Tasker Southport, UK. AM7-40 Neal is an experienced model balloon enthusiast, with a background in paper tissue envelopes and liquid fuelled balloons. His passion for mini balloons was inspired during time spent in Brazil, where large scale paper balloons are common place at festivals and events. Neal is working on an innovative home built basket, fuel system and pilot as can be seen in the photo's he sent in this summer (2011), you may recognise the pilots face from some of his previous ballooning adventures. Plenty more to come from Neal - Wallace and Grommet have now trained as pilots - while Neal has tackled the project of designing and constructing burners and coils for some of my recent projects. ........................................................................................ Janet Folks Nottingham U.K AM7-50 Janet is one of the best known female pilots in the U.K. Regularly flying `The University of Nottingham' Lindstrand 77A around the British and European circuit as well as flying gas balloons in the Gordon Bennett. Janet approached us in late 2010 with a plan to create a model to match the larger balloon, The first Balloon to carry any significant artwork presented a new challenge. The balloon took it's first flight in late January 2011 in Châteaux D'oex Switzerland. Thank you Janet for the most spectacular images. ........................................................................................ Nic Menezis St. Louis Missouri USA AM7-20 Prototype. Nic flies a Boelling hopper bottom end, but went out on a limb to purchase, unseen the Am7-20 prototype, cracking images from the balloons first flight, thanks for your continued support Nic ......................................................................................... Dave Milkins Bristol U.K AM7-40 and AM7-50 Dave has, since the delivery of the balloons, taken up a key position on the committee of Model Balloons UK, thanks for the photo's Dave, looking forward to seeing plenty more from around the UK scene ....................................................................................... Peter Clegg Johannesburg - South Africa AM7-40 prototype (top left) Peter added this balloon to a rapidly growing collection of model balloons, also pictured are his 3 home built envelopes and his basket. Peter exchanged a basket for his AMBalloons kit. 3 years later peter and I final met when I visited south Africa on a work trip. Great to final meet up, and thanks for the basket.
....................................................................................... Richard Bowater Teesside UK AM6-66, AM7-70 X 2 Richard and I go back to my days living in the north east of England, where we crewed and flew together before working on some of my early balloon designs, since then Richard has added some spectacular balloons to his repertoire, (of which I can claim little involvement) keep sending the pictures, keep building the new envelopes loving the experimenting Richard
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