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On 23/08/2025 17:32, Simon wrote:
On 2025-08-23, Peter wrote:
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote in news:108cmi7$28aef$1
@andyburns.eternal-september.org:
Hot air balloon lands perfectly in a street
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c4gm8jvl2e7o>
Goodness. Just the right combination of luck, skill and the right people >>> around.
The right people would be the ground team, no?
The very rapidly recruited ground team, it appears.
On 2025-08-23, Mike Fleming wrote:
On 23/08/2025 17:32, Simon wrote:
On 2025-08-23, Peter wrote:
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote in news:108cmi7$28aef$1
@andyburns.eternal-september.org:
Hot air balloon lands perfectly in a street
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c4gm8jvl2e7o>
Goodness. Just the right combination of luck, skill and the right people >>>> around.
The right people would be the ground team, no?
The very rapidly recruited ground team, it appears.
I thought, maybe wrongly, there is a support team ready to assist for landing.
Maybe the fact they landed in a street is a sign it was more urgent and therefore relying on passersby. :-)
On 24/08/2025 10:04, Simon wrote:
On 2025-08-23, Mike Fleming wrote:
On 23/08/2025 17:32, Simon wrote:
On 2025-08-23, Peter wrote:
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote in news:108cmi7$28aef$1
@andyburns.eternal-september.org:
Hot air balloon lands perfectly in a street
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c4gm8jvl2e7o>
Goodness. Just the right combination of luck, skill and the right people >>>>> around.
The right people would be the ground team, no?
The very rapidly recruited ground team, it appears.
I thought, maybe wrongly, there is a support team ready to assist for landing.
Maybe the fact they landed in a street is a sign it was more urgent and
therefore relying on passersby. :-)
There is a support team but they have to follow the balloon, which will probably make better speed over a town than the support vehicle will.
My experience, one balloon ride in Australia, and the support team met the balloon at the landing site. They were set up ready when the balloon arrived.
On 24/08/2025 10:20 pm, Simon wrote:
My experience, one balloon ride in Australia, and the support team met the >> balloon at the landing site. They were set up ready when the balloon arrived.
In my own experience - same number of flights - we landed several
minutes before the support team arrived. It all depends on wind speed, traffic conditions, ... and other stuff. My flight was in Essex and we
had reached the stage where we either had to land, or keep going to The Netherlands.
On 2025-08-25, Naqerj wrote:
On 24/08/2025 10:20 pm, Simon wrote:
My experience, one balloon ride in Australia, and the support team met the >>> balloon at the landing site. They were set up ready when the balloon arrived.
In my own experience - same number of flights - we landed several
minutes before the support team arrived. It all depends on wind speed,
traffic conditions, ... and other stuff. My flight was in Essex and we
had reached the stage where we either had to land, or keep going to The
Netherlands.
Haha, a trip to the Netherlands, in a balloon, that I would like to see :-)
In article <slrn10ao74l.vffb.SimonJ@silex.localdomain>, Simon
<SimonJ@eu.invalid> on Mon, 25 Aug 2025 at 08:19:33 awoke Nicholas from
his slumbers and wrote
On 2025-08-25, Naqerj wrote:There have been trips round-the-world trips in hot air balloons.
On 24/08/2025 10:20 pm, Simon wrote:
My experience, one balloon ride in Australia, and the support team met the >>>> balloon at the landing site. They were set up ready when the balloon arrived.
In my own experience - same number of flights - we landed several
minutes before the support team arrived. It all depends on wind speed, >>> traffic conditions, ... and other stuff. My flight was in Essex and we >>> had reached the stage where we either had to land, or keep going to The >>> Netherlands.
Haha, a trip to the Netherlands, in a balloon, that I would like to see :-) >>
AISI their biggest problem would be, do the have enough fuel on board to
make the trip.
Next did they pack their passports? The Dutch probably feel the same
about undocumented migrants arriving by hot air balloon, as the English
do about undocumented migrants arriving by rubber dingy.
On 2025-08-25, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
In article <slrn10ao74l.vffb.SimonJ@silex.localdomain>, Simon
<SimonJ@eu.invalid> on Mon, 25 Aug 2025 at 08:19:33 awoke Nicholas from
his slumbers and wrote
On 2025-08-25, Naqerj wrote:There have been trips round-the-world trips in hot air balloons.
On 24/08/2025 10:20 pm, Simon wrote:
My experience, one balloon ride in Australia, and the support team met the
balloon at the landing site. They were set up ready when the balloon arrived.
In my own experience - same number of flights - we landed several
minutes before the support team arrived. It all depends on wind speed, >>>> traffic conditions, ... and other stuff. My flight was in Essex and we >>>> had reached the stage where we either had to land, or keep going to The >>>> Netherlands.
Haha, a trip to the Netherlands, in a balloon, that I would like to see :-) >>>
AISI their biggest problem would be, do the have enough fuel on board to
make the trip.
Next did they pack their passports? The Dutch probably feel the same
about undocumented migrants arriving by hot air balloon, as the English
do about undocumented migrants arriving by rubber dingy.
Yes, I can imagine it would cause some problems and no easy way to fly back. It
was more an unexpected trip, I once went on a coach trip I thought was going to
Dover and ended up in Calais where I was refused entry as a UK driving licence
was not enough :-)
In article <slrn10ao74l.vffb.SimonJ@silex.localdomain>, Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> on Mon, 25 Aug 2025 at 08:19:33 awoke Nicholas from
his slumbers and wrote
On 2025-08-25, Naqerj wrote:There have been trips round-the-world trips in hot air balloons.
On 24/08/2025 10:20 pm, Simon wrote:
My experience, one balloon ride in Australia, and the support team met the >>>> balloon at the landing site. They were set up ready when the balloon arrived.
In my own experience - same number of flights - we landed several
minutes before the support team arrived. It all depends on wind speed, >>> traffic conditions, ... and other stuff. My flight was in Essex and we >>> had reached the stage where we either had to land, or keep going to The >>> Netherlands.
Haha, a trip to the Netherlands, in a balloon, that I would like to see :-) >>
AISI their biggest problem would be, do the have enough fuel on board to
make the trip.
On 2025-08-25, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
In article <slrn10ao74l.vffb.SimonJ@silex.localdomain>, Simon >><SimonJ@eu.invalid> on Mon, 25 Aug 2025 at 08:19:33 awoke Nicholas from
his slumbers and wrote
On 2025-08-25, Naqerj wrote:There have been trips round-the-world trips in hot air balloons.
On 24/08/2025 10:20 pm, Simon wrote:
My experience, one balloon ride in Australia, and the support team met the
balloon at the landing site. They were set up ready when the balloon >arrived.
In my own experience - same number of flights - we landed several
minutes before the support team arrived. It all depends on wind speed, >>>> traffic conditions, ... and other stuff. My flight was in Essex and we >>>> had reached the stage where we either had to land, or keep going to The >>>> Netherlands.
Haha, a trip to the Netherlands, in a balloon, that I would like to see :-) >>>
AISI their biggest problem would be, do the have enough fuel on board to
make the trip.
Next did they pack their passports? The Dutch probably feel the same
about undocumented migrants arriving by hot air balloon, as the English
do about undocumented migrants arriving by rubber dingy.
Yes, I can imagine it would cause some problems and no easy way to fly back. It
was more an unexpected trip, I once went on a coach trip I thought was going to
Dover and ended up in Calais where I was refused entry as a UK driving licence >was not enough :-)
In article <slrn10ap2i0.3cv.SimonJ@silex.localdomain>, Simon
<SimonJ@eu.invalid> on Mon, 25 Aug 2025 at 16:07:28 awoke Nicholas from
his slumbers and wrote
On 2025-08-25, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
In article <slrn10ao74l.vffb.SimonJ@silex.localdomain>, Simon >>><SimonJ@eu.invalid> on Mon, 25 Aug 2025 at 08:19:33 awoke Nicholas from
his slumbers and wrote
On 2025-08-25, Naqerj wrote:There have been trips round-the-world trips in hot air balloons.
On 24/08/2025 10:20 pm, Simon wrote:
My experience, one balloon ride in Australia, and the support team met the
balloon at the landing site. They were set up ready when the balloon >>arrived.
In my own experience - same number of flights - we landed several
minutes before the support team arrived. It all depends on wind speed, >>>>> traffic conditions, ... and other stuff. My flight was in Essex and we >>>>> had reached the stage where we either had to land, or keep going to The >>>>> Netherlands.
Haha, a trip to the Netherlands, in a balloon, that I would like to see :-) >>>>
AISI their biggest problem would be, do the have enough fuel on board to >>> make the trip.
Next did they pack their passports? The Dutch probably feel the same
about undocumented migrants arriving by hot air balloon, as the English
do about undocumented migrants arriving by rubber dingy.
Yes, I can imagine it would cause some problems and no easy way to fly back. It
was more an unexpected trip, I once went on a coach trip I thought was going to
Dover and ended up in Calais where I was refused entry as a UK driving licence
was not enough :-)
The worst that ever happened to me was falling asleep on the train back
from work and ending up in Sutton, only 5 or 6 stops beyond my own.
A coworker got off the last train to Southend, home from work. Walked
down the path to his front door, keys in hand, opened the front door and suddenly remembered .... The previous week he had moved to Greenwich.
His wife was not best pleased having to get dressed and drive to pick
collect him. The people who had bought his Southend house were not best pleased to have a drunk in their front room.