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Jim Martin, AKA, WACKOS, GKPI Premium Fotki Member

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Metro New York Balloon & Music Festival 2008

The Mega Flag goes to Long Island, along with a big show of giant kites. There are pictures of balloons, and the crew -- and of other kites we flew as well as the Mega Flag, which may give some idea of the kite show we can build around the Big Guy.

       
    
    
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Before going to NY -- Kat and friends work to clear the lines of snadspurs we picked up in Kuwait
1 Before going to NY -- Kat and friend…
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Before going to NY -- There's a lot of rope, I don't think they'll get done!
2 Before going to NY -- There's a lot …
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Before going to NY -- Some of the sandspurs plucked from the lines
3 Before going to NY -- Some of the sa…
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Before going to NY -- To aid sandspur removal, we bring in Snickers the Cat to use laser eye-beams...
4 Before going to NY -- To aid sandspu…
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Before going to NY -- Pat and I clear spurs from the back-line
5 Before going to NY -- Pat and I clea…
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Before going to NY -- This is what we're up against
6 Before going to NY -- This is what w…
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Before going to NY -- The ones on the right are the ones that tear up your hands, the ones on the left act like velcro making the lines harder to lay out for flying, and uncurl like concertina wire when you pluck them...
7 Before going to NY -- The ones on th…
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Friday in NY -- We arrve at 6:30 am, but the balloon guys got their even earlier!
8 Friday in NY -- We arrve at 6:30 am,…
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Friday in NY -- David helps inflate the Noah's Ark balloon, which turns out to be from Oregon, where he lives.
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Friday in NY -- David and his biggest fan!
10 Friday in NY -- David and his bigges…
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Friday in NY -- Looking up inside the Ark at some owls
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Friday in NY -- The Ark inflated
12 Friday in NY -- The Ark inflated
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Friday in NY -- Balloons
13 Friday in NY -- Balloons
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Friday in NY -- The great and small, I fly a mini-kite among the balloons
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Friday in NY -- A couple of interestingly shaped balloons
15 Friday in NY -- A couple of interest…
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Friday in NY -- Balloons!
16 Friday in NY -- Balloons!
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Friday in NY -- David helps pack the Ark away
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Friday in NY -- Plant of spurs for everybody.
18 Friday in NY -- Plant of spurs for e…
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Friday in NY -- At first, the runway is closed to us (festival is at a Long Island airport) but as soon as it closes to planes we hit the field.
19 Friday in NY -- At first, the runway…
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Friday in NY -- The festival is at a Long Island airport, which is open for planes at first, so the kite team waits just off the taxiway.
20 Friday in NY -- The festival is at a…
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Friday in NY -- Launching the 252 in light winds, Pat clears the 200 foot tail from a balloon basket.
21 Friday in NY -- Launching the 252 in…
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Friday in NY -- We are informed that the FAA has asked that we tie some caution tape to our kites, apparently not understanding the size of our kites. But we are happy to oblige: now any airplanes will be sure to notice the 90 foot octopi, 90 square foot
22 Friday in NY -- We are informed that…
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Friday in NY -- Pat and James and the slowly-descending 252 as winds die away
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Friday in NY -- a bit later, with the winds back, Pat and Mike have gotten a bear in the air.
24 Friday in NY -- a bit later, with th…
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