Not every day..

[flounder]

Its not every day you pull into your drive and see a guy in a hot air balloon trying to land in your back yard. Gotta love the country.

And hard to beat the random Bi-plane also taking advantage of the nice night dropping down to take a look at the same time and getting them both in the pic.

Unfortunately he couldnt make it and had to give it the gas to avoid the power lines out back. Still some decent pics for grabbing my little powershot quick.

[grapesmuggler27]

pretty cool

[Jst2fst]

Nice you should send that to Hallmark

[kawi kid]

Cool. Btw I need your chronograph... get it fixed please.

[flounder]

My crono works fool.

[ReconRat]

Haha, he might not have wanted to land in the corn either. Would have had to pay for that.

[kawi kid]

My crono works fool.

I thought you still gone so I have been holding off asking you. I have two new loads I'm testing.

[flounder]

Haha, he might not have wanted to land in the corn either. Would have had to pay for that.

Yeah, especially considering my neighbor is the one that farms the field. Their trail guy pulled into my drive just behind me and said, "I think hes gonna try and land in your yard, you dont mind do ya" haha. I just laughed and said nope.

[swingset]

Cool. About 10 years ago a C130 went over our field and dropped a bunch of reservists on parachutes. Apparently they were on a flight to drop south of there and the plane had electrical problems so they dropped the guys (about 20 of them, IIRC) and flew on to land safely. Guys hung out for a while till some trucks came and picked them up. I have some pics of it somewhere, have to scan 'em tho.

Last year I heard some motors overhead and looked up and saw this...don't see 4 blimps in the sky at once very often.

[Beegreenstrings]

when i read the original post, I was like Flounder has transmission power lines in his backyard?

[ReconRat]

whutdeheck, I've never seen 4 airships at the same time... must be mating season.

[kawi kid]

Go to the buffet on half off night, plenty of airships there

[Gixxus Christ!]

Good catch. I haven't seen a hot air balloon or years. Used to see them all the time.

[Helmutt]

Hot air balloons are rare to see around our area. Havent seen one in years either. Was lucky enough to tag along with my Dad in a balloon ride my Mom bought him for a BDay gift in the 80's, awesome experience.

[Anden]

I almost hit a hot air balloon as he was trying to land. Some things are quite hard to comprehend at 65mph. I'm sure the look on my face was priceless. I know the pilots was.

[bandit12]

Coshocton has a hot air balloon festival every year, they do stuff like fire them up at night so they glow and have balloon races. The fesival itself can be a little "blah" but the balloons can be kind of neat to see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADSYCnQXvZI

[max power]

My dog hates those things. Balloons are the only things she barks at. Makes her go crazy.