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Ballooning ?? Why, it's justa A 23-year-old father of two yo 0is 4 roar as the sheet of white 500 feet below. balloon consequently moving pallooning. It's a matter of tethered behind it. It doesn't amical v a from Hiackstock has ons of propane ignites, blasting the gondola, the passenger downward. To counteract loving to fly. And if you pay bad, John will tell you, _- John. "M i he $ LSapey and ever heard heated air into the inside of could easily be sitting at this gradual cooling, John happen' to get paid for it, but to make a living at it is % up. the 3 about the balloon. home in an easy chair, turns on the propane flow. It well..." almost impossible unless a and I'm n He gets high on hot air The three people holding "On the odd occasion, roars as it ignites, thrusting John has about eight national advertisingjobfora at some: John Adams, manufactur- onto the gondola release usually in summer," John the hot air into the balloon. accounts he services. He major company can be hook- About tl or of ruck Eo aHentive their hold, and the aluminum will tell you, 'you might hit If it isn't the actual flying works for an'Oshawa depart- ed. The: rate, according to The bal husband and i of Wo basket lifts-ever so gently off . an air pocket or two. But not . 'that appeals to the balloonist ment store twice a year; an John, is about $650. a day. $20 wortl enjoys pretty well what you the surface of frozen Lake now. Winter is the best time - then it must be the silence. Oshawa radio station and a Furthermore, once the four-hour EE My Day a Scugog. "Youre not enclos- for ballooning." Unbroken except for 'the number of other businesses. initial outlay is paid, the rest Even special love of his own. He ©d like you are in an air- The minute the balloon occasional burst of fuel, the ~The advertisement is either. is relatively inexpensive. relatively Ad of the best times of Plane," said John. "I's just leaves the earth, the pilot absence of noises as beauti- attached to the balloon or is "It's by far the most econ- halloon cc * Tis life Nang Sdcoended you and the wind. I consider has absolutely no control fy] as the flight. : de ; a and a fi "under a hu ge br go OR this the real thing." over direction. He's at the John has logged many ASAE HL SRR oh : & licegee ¢ noni vr with } yu If ballooning is flying, then. mercy of the prevailing hours . since he started Feta eR ch and $1200, " 50.000 cubic feet of ne flying is a totally visual winds. "I suppese that's ballooning twoyearsago.He ~~ © = AR a RR fast the s MeN © thing. There's no sensation where the adventure comes got into: it for the extra = ~~ © 0 i wid ai RRO: dniidur rou Ground A his is about as close to of flight at all. No feeling of in. -You control the balloon, money he'd get through ad- © FEL Be RS a RR i Dp on ude puch the really flying as you are ever falling or of movement, no yet not completely." -: vertising work, but quickly = 3 : : going to get," he said as he familiar upsidedown By control, Mr. Adams. fell in love with the business- adjusted the valve on the fuel stomack. It it wasn't for the ~~ means up and down. Thehot turned sport, line leading from the pro- ~ Crisp winter air and the tiny air inside the balloon is "I don't know of anyone _ pane tank in the gondola. Waving dots of black on the\ constantly cooling, the who makes a living at To aunghing site by Balloon. prepared : Ready for inflation sled : i Fg. 2 It's just yon tin 3 - YYYY J A) close LJ gon Jf ie . 44 ry 2 § i 2 rN A 2 Jp i (7, Se ih 7