Preparation for a hot air balloon take off (3 minute watch)

Get up close and view the inflation process as this hot air balloon is setsup and made ready for the teams first flight of it's season.
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This team are flying a Lindstrand hot air balloons 105,000ft3 envelope, G-WAYS and it's great to be able to take THE BIG BALLOON FESTIVAL channel out on the road and capture the inflation process and take off of this local balloon team.
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Music - Savannah sunshine - by Dan Henig

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The old Palletways balloon. I'd have kept its artwork intact.

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Good spotting, but not always an option when the sponcer sells the equipment on sometimes it comes with the requirement to remove the advert.

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noice

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Awesome. I was wondering how they took off. What is the smaller tarp thing that attaches to the basket and balloon used for??

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The green fabric is made of fire proof nomex, the section of nomex between the mouth and burner frame is known as a scoop. It directs the passing breeze that is present when the balloon is on the ground up into the envelope, helping to pressurise it, once in flight it has little use, but its very helpful on a windy day on the ground