Modern LTA in 3D - Balloons.

Images of Hot-Air Balloons and Airships.
(I do have gas balloon images, but they're not here yet)

These are relatively recent images (1985 to present). This page has an 'odd assortment', but links to other modern balloon pages for

Current Images (recent months)
Special Projects (round-the-world balloons and such)
Balloon Fiesta Photos

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	Hot Air Balloons - Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, August 1994. See the 2003 Bristol International Balloon Fiesta HERE
	Hot Air Balloon Cameron N77 G-POLY. (The vignetting is an unfortunate side effect of using a Wray StereoGraphic camera) The digital versions of this and the following modern images are provided courtesy of CD Photographics, Bristol UK. Thanks!
	Another one taken with the Wray :*( We seem to be moving back through the inflation sequence!
	Looking straight up - through the burner-at the deflation valve. The Camera is an Iloca Stereo this time :*) Cameron N90 G-BPUJ
	Another one looking up - this time at G-POLY. The burner is the Cameron Mark III. The slight difference in focus between the two images shows that this was taken with a Wray Stereographic, whose 'Depthmaster' system (setting the focus of the two images differently) was intended to extend the depth of focus.
	Hot Air Airships under starters orders! Almost hidden at the back is a fourth, home-made one.... who's engine unfortunately failed on this occasion. The Sharky one won. Iloca again.
	Taken from the air, sequential hyperstereo of Bristol UK. Looking NorthEast from just south of Bristol Centre. Ricoh KR10
	Sequential hyperstereo of Bristol Docks. The SS Great Britain is in the foreground. Ricoh KR10.
	Bristol Balloon Fiesta Mass Launch. This is a normal separation view, so the stereo effect is not marked.
	Blokey on the right is Don Cameron. A True Gent, and the world's major balloon manufacturer.
	Cameron N-65 G-GLUE in the foreground. Originally owned by Mike 'Sticky Mickey' Glue. Behind it is a rarely-glimpsed Airtour 56.
	I promised airships... OK, so I had a problem with the virtual mounting. This however is a Virgin Lightship 60, wearing the advertising of Orange (in 1994). The next year it was blue, wearing 'Mazda' advertising, in which guise it blew away into the North Sea one day, but they avoided getting the story into the papers!. It was registered N2017A.
	An award winning air-to-air shot by Bob Aldridge (now chairman of the Stereoscopic Society). It is _slightly_ hyper, taken with a twinned Olympus OM10 system. Taken from G-POLY with me as pilot. Reproduced with permission. Thanks!
	T&C105 G-BSNU in September 2002. Before a change of artwork. The photograph is a sequential hyper taken with a digital camera.
	Any comments to SILTAF at Blueyonder dot co dot uk please.

Since September 2002

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