Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic 2015

June 20th & 21st, 2015 A Supplement to

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Message from the President of the Board

Welcome to the 25th Annual Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic At the end of last year’s successful event it appeared it may have been our last! At that time we lost several key long-time board members, some of whom had served for over 20 years. i understood their need to leave; they were just wore out and needed their lives back. To be honest i was feeling the same way.

With losing that much experience and expertise all at once i could see no way to carry on. of the few remaining members only a couple of us have been at it a long time, and we didn’t have a clue as two how much the others had always taken care of. so i made the hard decision to throw in the towel and bring it to an end. The newer remaining board members (some with only one year on the board) protested that it wasn’t fair and that they hadn’t had a chance to even get their feet wet. so i gave them to months to recruit new people to fill the vacancies. Through their efforts and with the help of Amaturo sonoma media Group (Ksro, The riVer, miX 104.9, hoT 101.7, FroGGY 92.9), they did just that. not just people, but professional, young and very talented people with lots of energy. With some guidance from the outgoing board they have done what i believed was impossible. They

gave me back my passion for this event. so come enjoy and celebrate our 25th Anniversary of The sonoma County hot Air Balloon Classic. The beauty and spectacle of dawn Patrol, the amazing special shape balloons, the splendor and excitement of the main Launch with almost thirty balloons. And don’t forget the thrill of experiencing a balloon ride for yourself in a Tethered Balloon. in closing, i’d like to dedicate this year’s Balloon Classic.

of wonderment on child’s face, as they see all this for the first time.

Sincerely, Steve Henricksen, President Board of Directors Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic The Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic is an independent, non-profit entity, not part of, or affiliated with any other organization.

FIRST: To all the past board members who gave up to twenty years of their lives producing and keeping this event alive.

SECOND: To the new generation of board members who have worked their ass off (sorry, but there’s just no other way to say it) to pick up the baton and carry on Third: To you and especially your children, from whom we receive so much gratification from seeing how much you enjoy the fruits of our labor.

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About the cover art Glenn Gustafson is an illustrator working for national clients from his rural home studio in north Carolina. dabbling in art from a young age and taking art classes in high school he went on to attend the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. From there Glenn apprenticed at handelanPedersen studios in Chicago, enjoying great opportunities and learning the commercial trade from the talent there.

Later, Glenn freelanced in various studio locations in downtown Chicago. other creative interests include easel painting, fine art print making and woodworking.

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The Star Spangled Banner performed by Danielle Noble, singer with the Court ‘n’ Disaster band!

Danielle Noble, the CnD “Momager�, sings lead & backup vocals and plays percussion. Away from the band she works as a Substitute Teacher in Santa Rosa's public schools, has a Teaching Credential in Physical Education, speaks French, & sings regularly in French for French Clubs in SF. Danielle is also raising two preteen bilingual kids and is married to an attorney/judge pro tem.

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Meet the Pilots David Dunrud is piloting the Flying Purple People Eater Balloon. The Flying Purple People Eater was named for a popular song written in 1958 by Shep Wooley. Shep gave his permission to use the name on the balloon and the one eyed tradition lives on. The "Eater" is 80 Feet tall including his ears. The arms are 25 feet long.

David is one of the youngest pilots in the “Classic” at the ripe old age of 29. As he puts it, “as soon as I could walk I have been striving to achieve my goal of becoming a Commercial Pilot, and have now made it.” The first Sonoma County Classic in 1989 was the first rally David attended, that would have made him approximately 4?

When he was twelve, he started working for Adventures Aloft in Napa, Ca. with his Aunt Donna, who is one of the pioneer women balloon pilots. She got him started by letting him inflate the balloon. On his fourteenth birthday he received his student certificate and started flying with friends and family at rallies. In the summer of 2001 he met up with Mike Kijak with Up and Away Ballooning and started crewing in Sonoma County. Soon thereafter Mike took him for a training flight, so at age17 he bought his first balloon. He earned his private pilot certificate at 20 and commercial rating at 21. He has flown commercially for Up & Away Ballooning in Windsor and has travelled across the country to fly for numerous hot air ballooning companies, sharing a true life dream of ballooning with the folks that come to fly with them. His goal now is to keep flying and completely explore the world of ballooning.

Don Heisig flies Mariposa 2. He lives at Roberts Island Aerodrome in Holt on the California Delta and he has flown events in New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Leon, Mexico besides many here in the Golden State. His wife Linda is also a pilot besides his Crew Chief. They have been active in ballooning since 1997 crewing and then getting their first balloon in 2004 and then their Pilots Certificates together in 2006. Don is an instructor and meteorologist for the Jr. Balloonist High Sierra balloon camp in Reno with the next one held in July, 2015.

Justin Kinsinger is one of the youngest balloon pilots here today. Justin is from San Francisco, California. He is flying the balloon called “Bob’s Cat.” Justin has been a pilot for nearly 8 years. He currently lives in San Francisco, but he flies his balloon regularly out of the Central Valley town of Tracy. He has flown internationally in United Arab Emirates and Chile, in addition to balloon festivals in California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Michigan. Justin was first introduced to ballooning through his grandfather Bob Kinsinger who has been involved in ballooning for over 35 years. His balloon, Bob's Cat, and grandfather Bob have travelled the world together and he has flown in over 30 countries throughout his career in the sport. Bob at age 87 still actively participates in ballooning and travels from Twain Harte, CA to fly with Justin whenever the time permits Jimmy Long is a local Santa Rosa resident. He has been a fixed wing pilot for nearly 20 years and has been flying hot air balloons for 8 years. He is flying his balloon

“Sonoma Star.” As a son of a pre-war biplane barnstormer, aviation has always been an interest. Jimmy is a great friend of the Balloon Classic who helps us out with pre-event volunteer crew training and has been one of our Gary Michalek is from Lafayette, California. His first balloon ride was his first lesson flying. Gary bought his first balloon at a garage sale. He has been a pilot for over 20 years and has only flown off with the keys in his pocket one time.

Peter Pierre is flying Magic Moments 6. Peter is from Fresno, California, He has been flying balloons since 1984. He has flown several times at the Albuquerque Balloon fiesta, 10 years at the Great Reno Balloon Race, and the last 4 years at the Festival Del Globo in Leon, Mexico. This balloon, Magic Moments, is the sixth edition for this design.

Jay Schuler’s balloon is called Pencil Boy, the biggest and greatest flying pencil ever. From question marks, to commas, to exclamation points, his big eyes will start your imagination and his lead will spark your fire for learning.

Start to finish, pencil boy will truly help make you write a great story! Jay is from Reno, Nevada. Jay has been flying balloons since 2003, but his family started flying balloons in 1985. He and his wife and children live in Reno, Nevada where he flies both for fun and commercially in the Reno/Truckee area. Jay flies in many balloon events each year, including Albuquerque, New Mexico where there are over 700 balloons.

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Meet the Pilots Larry Seiler is from Woodbridge, California. He is flying a balloon called L'Escalier (pronounced Les-cal-yay). They chose this French word for 4 reasons: it means “stairway” or “escalator;” describes the spiral stair-step design of the balloon envelope; describes what balloons do (they go up & down & float all around), and it honors the first manned flight: the hot air balloon launch at Versailles [vehr-SIGH], France in 1783 (that’s right, man’s first flight was not the Wright Brothers’ flight). Larry’s first balloon flight was in 1983 and he bought his first balloon in 1993. Larry flies in numerous balloon rallies. He has placed several times in the top 20 winners of the Great Reno Balloon Race, and he won that race in the year 2000.

Larry Sprague is flying Sundance. Larry is from Central Point, and has flown many times at the Balloon Classic.

He’s also been the pilot for our most Long-term sponsor, Blue Star Gas, who supplies all the fuel needed to send these beautiful balloons soring over Sonoma County.

Greg Taggart is from Citrus Heights, CA. He is flying a balloon called Coyote Moon. He took his first balloon ride at the 1979 Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. After that, he helped out as crew for Sacramento and started training with them. He got his pilot license in 1982 and purchased his first balloon in 1983. In 1986 he was the Nevada State Balloon Champion and has had luck competing over the years in Reno and Albuquerque. A most epic flight was over the Grand Canyon in Arizona and 4 years ago a flight over the Sierra Nevada mountains north of Lake Tahoe.

Dana Thornton, a pilot since 1980, made his first hot air balloon ride as a passenger in 1978 and his first hands-on burner when he was 18 years of age. Dana and his older brother, Ron, started the Great Reno Balloon Race Dawn Patrol in 1984 and Dana has been a part of the early morning balloon team since then. GRBR is just one of the events he attends yearly but is among one of his favorites. Based out of San Jose, Dana and his wife Denise travel primarily along the west coast to ballooning events throughout the year. Sonoma County, and more specifically, Windsor, is a frequented spot for the couple

as they enjoy their time share while wine tasting with friends and family and feel it's a beautiful place for hot air ballooning. "Free Spirit" is the name of their balloon and can be distinguished out of the balloon crowd with its noticeable yellow pennants flowing on the side and the smiley face design on the very top.

Dave Wakefield is from Sacramento, California and is flying the ReMax balloon. Dave was first introduced to ballooning in 1999 when he was asked to crew for a local balloonist in his area. He was so captivated by the sport, that he bought his first balloon, Cheers, four months later.

He received his private pilot certificate the next year, and his commercial pilot certificate a year after that. During that training time, one of the crew people brought out made a hit with Dave, and in August of 2002 he married Shelly. (It’s good to keep your crew in the family, so to speak). Dave has flown in balloon events in California, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado and Arizona.

Gay James is from Orland, CA. She will be one of the tethered balloon pilots today. She is the pilot for a balloon called “The Wanderer."

Jim Abell flies a balloon called Kiphaven. The name Kiphaven comes from the name of Abell's property in Santa Rosa, CA, named after Jim's son, Kip. The balloon design was inspired by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian and is the only balloon like this. Jim has been flying in our event for 11 years. Jim will also be one of our Dawn Patrol pilots this year.

John Cavin is flying a special shape balloon called “Spunky.” John is here from Georgia. John has flown Spunky in our event the last 3 years, but he has been here in past years flying the Purple People Eater. He will be flying at over 18 events this year in the U.S. and Canada. He has been flying balloons for more than 25 years and was involved with NASCAR for 10 years.

Dexter "Scorch" Coffman is here from Fresno, California. He is flying a balloon called Magic Moments V one of a series of same design balloons. You can see Magic Moments VI here today, being flown by Peter Pierre. Captain Scorch has been flying for over 25 years.

For Coffman, who has been a hot air balloon pilot for about 25 years, his hobby has become a viable business.

In 1987, he founded a business that sold high-powered, belt-driven fans to inflate hot air balloons but in a twist of fate he developed blowing machines used by firefighters to clear smoke from buildings. The fans are now being used in both Bakersfield, CA. and Reno, NV. Jim Marshall has been flying passengers in hot air balloons for 37 years, His first company, founded in 1978, pioneered Wine Country balloon flights in Sonoma County. In 1979 Jim recognized the need for a balloon repair station in order to comply with FAA requirements for operating a commercial balloon ride business. He sought training and became certified in repair and inspection of hot air balloons. With that, Jim and a partner opened one of the first FAA certified balloon repair stations in the world. This experience in and out of the air has led to opportunities to fly and service balloons in France, Egypt, the Czech Republic and all over the USA, Including the Napa Valley where Jim enjoys the supportive and family atmosphere of Napa Valley Aloft.

Gale Mott has been a hot air balloon pilot for 28 years.

He fell in love with ballooning after his first flight as a passenger. He enjoys every aspect of the sport: the camaraderie, traveling to different areas (even out of country) and especially meeting new friends. He has flown mostly in California and is looking forward to flying in the Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic!

The winds have taken Frank Wechter from the moors of Scotland to the jungles of Mexico. He began flying balloons in 1974 and has instructed over 50 pilots in the art of aerostation. He has flown in 48 states and 22 countries. He has operated balloons for Emirates Airlines, Nikon, Midcap Bearing, Uncle Ben’s Rice, Southwest Airlines and Rovio~Angry Birds. Recently, he flew 500,000-cubic foot balloons carrying 30 passengers over the fairy chimneys of Cappadocia, Turkey, He is an authorized Cameron Balloons Representative for both CBUS and CB Ltd., UK.

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This year’s event announcers

Steve Tony Landucci

Courtney

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Tony Landucci is a Wine Country native who moved with his family from napa to santa rosa when he was 15. Tony attended santa rosa Junior College and sonoma state University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in pursuit of becoming a multimedia journalist. having spent almost 6 years in radio news, Tony has recently moved to print journalism, writing hyper-local news stories in the West County region of sonoma County. Tony enjoys snowboarding and bicycling whenever he gets a chance to get out. his favorite stories to cover are city council meetings and the sonoma County hot Air Balloon Classic. if he had his way, city council meetings would be held in hot air balloons.

You can hear Courtney mondays through Fridays from 10am to 2pm and saturdays from 10am to 3pm on hot 101.7, sonoma County’s hit music station!

Courtney has been in sonoma County for almost 7 years now and can’t imagine ever leaving. she began working for hot 101.7Fm right before graduating from sonoma state University. she has bounced around doing various jobs at the station before finally landing her dream job of being on-air, ultimately landing the coveted mid-day slot. When she’s not on the air, you’ll find her at a concert or out being active; anything from crossfit, to hiking, to soccer.

in his ninth year as president, steve has been on the mic along with our guest radio hosts for the last 9 years. steve is the owner of Precision sound Craft and can be seen (if not heard) at many events and festivals throughout California, including summer nights on the Green concerts in his home town of Windsor, Bodega seafood Art & Wine Festival, Valley of the moon Vintage music Fest, July 3rd at Keiser Park and July 4th Petaluma rock and Boom, just to name a few. steve has been a member of the board since the year 2000.

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Hot Air Balloon Tether Rides — Your chance to ride in a balloon only $10 for adults, $5 for kids 12 & under

By Karen Brown, Pilot After Dawn Patrol you will notice some balloons setting up and start to bob around at low altitude over the field. These are the tethered balloons.

This is your opportunity to ride a tethered balloon. Tethered balloons are tied off by 3 or more lines to objects on the ground, usually vehicles, to restrict their flight. The tethered balloon will launch, go up approximately 50 feet, float and land.

As a passenger, the feeling you experience with tethered flight is the same as with a free, un-tethered, flight of 1000 feet. The only difference is the view. For the balloon, pilot and crew, it involves a bit more work. Although the balloon fabric is chemically treated to protect it, heat can reduce the life of the balloon. More heat is needed for the repeated liftoffs and landings of tethering than with non-tethered flight. This repeated heating of the balloon not only must be closely moni-

tored by the pilot, but it also subjects the pilot to a constant barrage of heat, with each burner blast. With each passenger exchange, the pilot must mentally calculate the total weight for lift temperatures to keep a slow, steady launch and prevent jerking the balloon and passengers when the balloon reaches the end of the tie off line.

Normal launch speed would be about 200 feet per minute. While tethering it needs to stay around 25 feet per minute. Pilots that tether, also have to be prepared to answer questions at the same time they are managing the flight. Sometimes the same questions get answered over and over and over, so patience and personality are a must.

(No shy guy and gals here!)

Pilots also need a great crew, preferably five, to help tether. As hard as tethering is on the balloon and pilot, it is even harder on the crew. In traditional flight, after the balloon is inflat-

ed, crew will typically help a pilot launch and land once. This involves providing “weight on” for launch (adding extra weight to the basket until the pilot has the balloon stabilized with passengers) and stepping back when told, and repeat the process again for landing. For a tethered operation, this must happen dozens of times, while passengers are loaded and unloaded. The crew must also monitor the tether lines, manage safety and crown control, collect money and/or tickets and help with passenger weight distribution. All this must be done, while also proving a constant supply of water to the overheated pilot! Crew must also be prepared to answer frequent questions and proved public relations for the pilot and the balloon show. Again, patience and personality is very helpful.

Even though tethering is hard, there are pilots and crew out there who love

to have this opportunity to share their love of ballooning with the general public and give the experience of balloon flight. So get in line early to get you tethered ride.

Unfortunately, standing in line, will not guarantee a tethered flight. There are a number of reasons, why the tethered rides are over early in the day.

Weather conditions (the wind picks up), low fuel and time constraints are just a few reasons why a pilot will take down the balloon. Most pilots and crew do not want to take the balloon down while there are people in line, but sometimes it is inevitable. If you see another balloon still tethering, get in that line and hope for the best.

Now that you know about tethering, go experience balloon flight, sign up to be a volunteer, crew member or sponsor for next year’s balloon event. Maybe next time you will have that view from 1000 feet up.

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Just a Little Bit of Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic History It has been 23 years since I first gave my heart to the Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic. People have come to the event to watch, to work, and to take thousands of pictures.

Some of those folks are still here some are gone, the event has had quite a life and many changes, but the purpose for the event has remained the same. I’d like to share with you a little of the history of the event.

My name is Earleen and I was a new member of a newly formed Rotary Club back in 1988. The Rotary Club of Windsor was looking for a signature event and fund raiser. It was decided that Sonoma County would be a spectacular place to have an event centered around hot air ballooning and the new Rotary Club were just the people to start it.

In those days the event happened just next to Shiloh Road in an undeveloped area next to the Windsor Golf Course. We were really fortunate that the owners of the land allowed us to use it for 10 years. Many wonderful things happened through the donations that came into the Rotary Club via the event. I can remember school projects funded, a tractor for the humane society, a score board for little league just to mention a few. The best thing that came of those years was an absolutely spectacular annual event for Sonoma County.

As will happen – things change, the site was needed for new homes and the Rotary Club could not find a suitable spot for the event in 1998.

Now that was not the end for either the Windsor Rotary Club or The Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic. The Rotary Club has gone on with new fund raisers and is doing wonderful things in Windsor. But, this piece is about the history of “The Classic”.

It was 1998; Windsor was a struggling newly incorporated town. A few Windsor folks were sitting around discussing the needs of Windsor and the then president of the Windsor Chamber of Commerce said “what we really need is a really great event that will attract people from all over Sonoma County – maybe even the Bay Area.” I replied “we had one – the balloon event.” Well we took a close look at some possible sites and decided if the town would let us we could do it at Keiser Park and the new Windsor High School. The next challenge was the “we”. The event had

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been done by the Rotary club and there was not another single organization that would try to do it.

That was when The Classic developed into its own incorporated nonprofit organization. The Rotary Club allowed the new organization to take over the name and even helped to get the new Board on their feet. The Board of Directors was made up of representatives of several non profit service organizations. The Town offered suggestions and Sam Salmon stepped up to attend board meetings. It was a crazy new beginning to an established event. Just like a preteen child our Board suffered through some tough

times. During those first couple of years we didn’t make any money and it was only through some very tenacious people that we survived. At this time I would truly like to thank The Town of Windsor for their support.

It did survive and it had to change some to do it, but the important things like being a completely volunteer run event, designed as a spectacular special event and fund raiser has not. We have volunteers that come from all over California and some from out of state. Some of them do it because they know that the proceeds will be going to some very special non-profit organizations and educa-

tional needs in Windsor and in Sonoma County, but most of our volunteers just love this event.

I’m still hanging in there because I still get a lump in my throat when I stop what I am doing at the event, hear the music, gaze up at the rising, colorful giants and see the wonder and excitement on a stranger’s face as they take in the spectacle unfolding before them. I am happy to have been a part of the history of The Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic and I hope that you too will share a part in the making of this year’s most spectacular event.

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Dawn Patrol Sponsored by: The Town of Windsor

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t 5 am on both Saturday and Sunday, five specially equipped balloons will ascend just before sunrise.

Choreographed to music, these balloons will produce a spectacular sight as they light up the skies with a multicolored glow. This is an event worth getting out of bed early for!

The sight of Dawn Patrol is memorable

because of the way the balloons light up.

Seven stories high, these balloons shine in the dark by igniting raw, non-preheated propane. This is accomplished by using a specially-equipped “fire two” valve.

Each balloon must be equipped with battery operated lights which are suspended from the basket. Dawn Patrol balloonists may

not take off any earlier than two hours before sunrise.

For safety purposes, Dawn Patrol pilots always fly a previous daytime flight to familiarize themselves with hazards of the area and to locate possible landing sites.

Enjoy this spectacular vision!

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OUR DONORS Korbel Champagne Cellars Martorana Family Winery Colagrossi Wines Peripoli Estate Winery Windsor V Vineyards ineyards T Trione rione V Vineyards ineyards & Winery

Thumbprint Cellars Lagunitas Brewing Co. Bear Republic Brewing Co. Florian’s Brewery St. Florian’s American AgCredit Napa Smith Brewery

DH Woodworking Woodworking Dry Creek V Vineyard ineyard Francis Ford Coppola Winery Santa Rosa Entertainment Group Dan and Amy T Tocchini o occhini Windsor Fire Protection Dist.

Windsor Golf Club Lombardi's Catering Andy and Katie Wick Diane and Les Brabetz Randy Cozad

BECAUSE OF ALL OF YOU, WE ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE SO MUCH TO OUR COMMUNITY: Senior Helping Hands

Windsor Teacher Teacher Windsor Appreciation Awards Appr eciation A wards

Windsor Middle School Windsor TTeachers eachers Grant G

Youth outh Leadership A wards Rotary Y Awards

Pr oject Success Project

Cool Kids Camp

SAY SA AY Teen Teen Crisis Hotline

Holiday Dinner for Bell Manor

4H Livestock Pr ogram Program

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SRJC Leadership Center Girls State

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Windsor W indsor High School Scholarships

Windsor High School Windsor Student of the Month

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Career Day Windsor Windsor Oaks Academy Career

Windsor W indsor Day Parade

Inter national Youth Youth International Exchange Pr ogram Program

Windsor W indsor Middle School Year Student of the Y ear

Connect for Success; Computers and Inter net for Students Internet

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