"For once you have tasted flight you will
walk the earth with you eyes sky bound,
for once you were there, and there you long
to return" - Leonardo de Vinci
The setup begins. David and Dad hold the ropes
while the big gas-powered blower (I've been called worse things)
shoots cool air into the balloon. When
it gets big enough Bob the pilot starts hitting the burners to tilt it
upward.