Balloons over orlando kenny shumate

Top Stories. Balloons Reach Road. Pilots, community members make memories, form friendships during balloon festival. Kenny Shumate of Orlando, Florida, has been a hot air balloon pilot for the past 40 years and often tells people that Aroostook County provides some of the best flying that any balloon enthusiast can ask for.

Get the Rest of the Story Thank you for reading your 4 free articles this month. To continue reading, and support local, rural journalism, please subscribe. Create an account and subscribe. We recommend that you do not fly in a balloon. In some cases, impact may be harder, or the basket may tip on its side and drag along the ground. Passengers should be physically able to handle the impact of landing. Remember, ballooning is an outdoor, rural adventure.

Note: If you have a medical condition or questions about your capabilities, please ask your doctor for advice and inform your pilot, if you do choose to go on a balloon flight.

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Kenny Shumate Orlando, FL. Brad Armstrong Sussex, NB. You don't just jump in and take off. You have to help assemble the darn thing. This is the basket. We had to lug it out of the trailer it's heavy. The balloon is still in the trailer. That's our pilot scratching his head??? Kenny Shumate, from Orlando, Florida. Drag it out of the trailer. The truck and trailer drive away and the balloon is pulled out of it's storage bag. It takes up a lot of space on the field.

Air is forced into the balloon using two of these fans. Then the gas jets are turned on. As the hot air rises inside the balloon, it causes it to stand erect. And away we go, aloft in "Easy Rider".