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Great Midwest Balloon Fest

Olathe, KS

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This weekend, Olathe, KS will host the Great Midwest Balloon Fest on the grounds of the Great Mall of the Great Plains. In its third year being run by Skycab Balloon Promotions, Scott McClinton and his team are bringing all the trailers and four wheelers to set up shop for a competitive and exciting weekend of balloon flying. Friday and Saturday night will be ride and tether operations and a balloon glow split between the pilot groups while Saturday and Sunday mornings will be competitive flights. 

Currently the weather looks a bit wet on Friday but clearing up for Saturday morning and for the rest of the weekend. One of the biggest weather challenges over the years has been the wind in the afternoons and this year it might also be windy in the afternoons.

Favorites for the weekend have to be the KC locals to include John Petrehn (last years winner) and Jason Jones. Jason was in first after the Saturday morning flight while flying his ride balloon with four passengers! Others to watch out for will be anyone from Texas and with two good flight opportunities its anyones race.

Updates will be most frequent on our twitter feed here.

Pilot List

1. Scott Armstrong
2. Alan Baird
3. Pat Brouillet
4. Bill Bussey
5. John Cavin
6. Bret Christian
7. Timothy Cloyd
8. Stephen Coffing
9. Hector Corominas, Jr
10. Ben Drennan
11. Charles Edwards
12. Jason Gaines
13. Guy Gauthier
14. Rick Goosey
15. Tim Graham
16. Michael Hadley
17. Pat Harwell
18. Joe Heartsill
19. Rhett Hearsill
20. Brandon Heavin
21. Gary Heavin
22. Jamie Hohman
23. Todd Isley
24. Chris Jones
25. Jason Jones
26. Craig Kennedy
27. Kiman Kingsley
28. Wil LaPointe
29. Richard Lawhorn
30. Steve Libel
31. Matt McClinton
32. Al Muir
33. Michael Oberman
34. Mary Ohmit
35. John Petrehn 
36. Kasey Schwemmer
37. Carol Sherman
38. Mark Shoemaker
39. Mike Shrum
40. Gary Sines
41. Bill Smith
42. Michael Stinson
43. Roy Stinson
44. Joel Sturdevant
45. Carlton Sumner
46. Wayne Van Allen
47. Layne Wolters
48. Joel Worthington
49. Bob Gonzales
50. Kevin Witzel
51. Dennis Short
52. Herb Heriford

Competition Map

Visit this link for the electronic version of the competition map.

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