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Balloons Aloft: Flying South Dakota Skies
Balloons Aloft: Flying South Dakota Skies
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Balloons Aloft: Flying South Dakota Skies: by Arley K. Fadness
Balloons Aloft: Flying South Dakota Skies, highlights significant ballooning events and pioneering aeronauts in South Dakota. On the 150th anniversary publication of Jules Verne’s classic Cinq Semaines En Balloon (Five Weeks in a Balloon), Balloons Aloft: relives the same
imagination, daring risks and courageous adventures that characterized not only Verne’s novel, but also, and prophetically -- the history, art and science of ballooning in South Dakota and beyond.
Arley Fadness writes as a former employee and friend of Ed Yost, the Father of the Modern Hot Air Balloon. Balloons Aloft: offers the reader a fascinating balloon ride through stories, ancedotes and adventures of celebrated aeronauts.
Balloons Aloft chronicles the history of Ballooning in it’s many different forms in South Dakota. For a state with a small population, South Dakota has been a major player in ballooning worldwide. This book gives an entertaining and informative perspective on the key characters connected to ballooning in the 20th century. Arley Fadness is in a unique position to give eyewitness views of many of these pioneers in modern ballooning.
Norma Kraemer, pilot and author of Images of Aviation
South Dakota’s First Century of flight.
Balloons Aloft: Flying South Dakota Skies, highlights significant ballooning events and pioneering aeronauts in South Dakota. On the 150th anniversary publication of Jules Verne’s classic Cinq Semaines En Balloon (Five Weeks in a Balloon), Balloons Aloft: relives the same
imagination, daring risks and courageous adventures that characterized not only Verne’s novel, but also, and prophetically -- the history, art and science of ballooning in South Dakota and beyond.
Arley Fadness writes as a former employee and friend of Ed Yost, the Father of the Modern Hot Air Balloon. Balloons Aloft: offers the reader a fascinating balloon ride through stories, ancedotes and adventures of celebrated aeronauts.
Balloons Aloft chronicles the history of Ballooning in it’s many different forms in South Dakota. For a state with a small population, South Dakota has been a major player in ballooning worldwide. This book gives an entertaining and informative perspective on the key characters connected to ballooning in the 20th century. Arley Fadness is in a unique position to give eyewitness views of many of these pioneers in modern ballooning.
Norma Kraemer, pilot and author of Images of Aviation
South Dakota’s First Century of flight.
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