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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 18, 2018 22:09:37 GMT 12
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Post by Peter Lewis on Mar 21, 2018 17:04:50 GMT 12
Up at 4.30am, on the road at 5.30am and off to Hamilton to see the Balloon Festival. A marvelous morning weatherwise. Just one paddock of fog on the trip down. At Innes Common, pretty clear skies and just 2kts of wind.  By my count 23 balloons (thanks Phil!) took to the air. I spotted two locals I had not seen previously: Boland 52-12 ZK-LOP, registered in December 2017 and Hamilton-based  and Cameron N-90 ZK-SEL, registered November 2017 also based in Hamilton  (more to come) |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Mar 22, 2018 17:39:45 GMT 12
There are six special shape balloons participating this year. The one from Brazil is the Marcos Bonimcontro RVB Balloons PP-ZMH, known as 'Piranha'  From the USA comes the Ricardo de Almeida SS30-LW N123WZ, 'Little Wizard'  N804BB is a Cameron Balloons Model 'Mr Potato Head-90', now promoted as 'Bud E Beaver'  Canada supplied the matching pair (same owner) Cameron N-133 Special C-FVSD 'Colour Fun For Everyone - Girl' and Cameron N-133 Special C-FVSJ 'Colour Fun For Everyone - Boy'   while tagging along with those two was the Lindstrand LBL 56A N4590G (ex G-DBAT) 'Colour Fun For Everyone - Baby Boy'  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 23, 2018 14:49:58 GMT 12
I have just read that the Zuru Night Glow has been postponed till Sunday, 4pm till 9pm, due to the weather.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Mar 23, 2018 17:40:39 GMT 12
As well as the special shapes there were four other overseas balloons participating: The Aerostar Raven S-55A N28861 was clearly sponsored by the soft drink manufacturer  By contrast, Kavanagh C-77 VH-CQK was quite anonymous  Nicely decorated Cameron Z-90 VH-ERY is presumably promoting the owner's business  and the Kavanagh D-84 VH-FRE has been a frequent participant in this event over the years, since at least 2009  |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Mar 24, 2018 17:09:24 GMT 12
Moving on to the locally-owned balloons, the Kubjcek BB60Z ZK-UPP/2 was first to lift off, and went for a Lake departure  The rest of the field then followed, most choosing a more northerly departure path Suitably easter-ish, the Cameron EGG-65 ZK-EGG/2 looks good. Pity this was also the week when the Cadbury Dunedin manufacturing plant closed down  Kavanagh D-90 ZK-PEA  Club-owned Cameron O-90 ZK-RYB  Boland Rover ZK-WHS  Cameron N-105 ZK-FBB/2  |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Mar 25, 2018 16:08:36 GMT 12
The final batch of locals: The Ultamagic S-50 ZK-PMS/2 is a Hamilton resident  as is the Kubícek BB22Z ZK-FRG/2  Cameron C-70 ZK-PPI hails from Auckland  as does Cameron C-90 ZK-WON  Finally Strata 73-12 ZK-CAF/2 reminds us that its time to pack up and go for coffee!  A magnificent morning, and by all accounts the rest of the week has also gone quite well. |
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Post by camtech on Mar 25, 2018 18:39:48 GMT 12
Thanks for the updates and photos, Peter.
Quite a few flew over home Wednesday morning, none on Thursday, and missed the rest as now in Christchurch. Attended avionics reunion and now about to head South on Duffy books in homes tour.
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