True. I have learned that the more unusual the design of the balloon, the harder it is to keep it in the air and navigate it. They didn't even try to get the dinosaur balloon off the ground.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2012, at 13:43 , Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > >> I had hoped to get it paired with a somewhat larger (ie closer) >> balloon, but it took so long to inflate Darth Vader that the others >> were fairly distant by the time it got aloft -- and it didn't stay up >> very long, either. > > When you spend $100,00 for a balloon vs the normal $35,000 - $65,000, you > tend to be very careful about piloting it. Or he/she took off with almost > empty tanks. :-) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

