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HOT AIR BALLOONS float through the sky on Thursday as part of the Ballons Over Vermilion event.
Iconic event returns to Danville after 15 years
BY BRENDAN DENISON
BDENISON@DANCOMNEWS.COM
DANVILLE — Talk to Daville’s
Brock Gale, and he’ll agree that
balloon piloting is as much art as
it is science.
“You gotta feel it in here,” Gale
said, pointing to himself. “You
gotta feel it in your gut.”
After Wedne sday’s stor my
weather, the balloon pilots were
hoping for a good day of flying on Thursday at Carlton Farms.
Dean Carlton, host pilot at the
farm, said it’s always a good to
rain a day or two before the event,
if it gets the bad weather out of it’s
system.
“We’re hoping the weather will
hold as expected and it should be
all good,” he said in advance of the
event.
Carlton also said everybody’s
thrilled for the big event, and the
He was taught by Ryan Carlton,
son
of Dean, and said he grew up
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around them and got introduced
BALLOONS OVER VERMILION is making its return after a 15-year
at a young age.
absence.
But what Gale loves the most
“Theres a lot of parts to make about balloning is the people he
community has “just been begging
this happen,” Cartlon said.
for it.”
gets to interact with; he said
Gale, 29, said he’s had his li- they’re like a second family to him.
He said for any balloon event,
there’s a lot of preparation, and cense for about a month, and he’s He also met his wife, Alex, through
they’ve spent days and days get- been around ballooning for most
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of his life.
ting people and crews lined up.
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BROCK GALE, MIDDLE, ALEX GALE, FRONT, AND RYAN CARLTON, back, heat up their
balloon named “Hello, Sweetie” at the Balloons Over Vermilion event.
Balloons ...
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ballooning, who’s the daughter or Bob Dagnon, the airport
manager that helped bring the
original balloon classics to
Danville.
To get his license, Gale said
he needed to have a certain
amount of hours flying with
an instructor, which comes out
to around 10-20 hours. He
also needed to fly a certain
amount of solo hours, with
nobody in the basket.
Then a certified flight examiner is brought in for an hour
flight, who runs through a
bunch of different scenarios
and tasks.
Before the Thursday flight,
Gale said he thought the
weather was going to be great.
He and his crew, made of
mostly family and friends, released a few smaller, colorful
party balloons to help guage
his absolute direction. With
winds generally flowing
northeast across the county,
Gale said there wasn’t much
‘steerage’ for his flight path.
He also said it’s incredibly
hard to explain what it’s
like once they leave the
ground, and there really isn’t a
sensation of moving while flying.
When the burners are running, he said it’s quite loud.
TODAY
3 p.m.: Gates Open
4:30 p.m.: Sponsors’ tents open
5 p.m.: Band, Steve Rodman & Rodman Rail
5:30 p.m.: Tethered balloon rides*
6:30 p.m.: Balloon Flight*
7 p.m.: Band, Chad Hays Boat Drink Caucus
8:30 p.m.: Balloon Glow*
9 p.m.: Band, 90’s Daughter
11 p.m.: Gates close
Midnight: Grounds close
Saturday, July 16
6 a.m.: Balloon Flights around Danville*
1 p.m.: Gates open
1 p.m.: Illiana Antique Car Show
1 p.m.: Band, El Quapo
2-3:30 p.m.: Balloon School for Kids
3 p.m.: Band, Bob Schifo Band
3–5:30 p.m.: Tethered balloon pictures*
4:45 p.m.: Band, Katapult
5:30-10 p.m.: Tethered balloon rides*
6:45 p.m.: Band, My Brother’s Keeper
7:30 p.m.: Balloon Fly-in and Glow*
9 p.m.: Band, My Brother’s Keeper
10:15 p.m.: Band, Willard Cratchelow
11:30 p.m.: Gates close
12:30 a.m.: Grounds close.
But when not, he said it’s a
very quite, peacful and calm
ride.
Gale said, “You can hear
people talking on the ground,
yelling ‘Hello!’” During the
flight, many residents looked
up to wave at the balloons,
and some cars pulled over to
the side of the road to gaze at
the colorful show in the sky.
Although the goal of Thursday’s Splash and Dash flight
was to drop a rubber duckie
on an ‘X’ on the lake, Gale
said during his flight his balloon wouldn’t make it. Instead, he made for the Vermilion County Regional Airport
to make for a clear landing.
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