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Donald Trump and his wife left the White House and got into the government helicopter waiting for him.He raised him in the air, heading for the Andrews base, where a special plane was waiting to set aside the former president to his headquarters in Florida.A loving politician did not solemnly transfer power over the United States AP to his successor.He left the position in a style of a denied man with class.All he has had had had.

Barely hidden pissing off and holding the Trump's post -election emotions were unlikely to enjoy enjoying the surface of the earth..Internally wounded, he certainly did not feel like this kind of elation.America Joe Biden under the wings of the aircraft certainly did not please him at the moment.

Differently with me.I love space and enjoy the views of the earth observed from the air.Few cheerful winter days each time prompted me to control and analyze meteorological forecasts and observe the sky.Unfortunately, theCovid hysteria mixed up our style.The authorities are calling for limiting contacts and moving.Policemen motivated by the authorities make the citizens' lives make citizens.And confused people swear power, police and virus.The weather seems to be included in this state of restrictions.

Just a year ago, everything promised to be very good.Colleagues from mid -January 2020.They entertained at the balloon competition in Tannheimer Tal on the Austrian-Bavarian border.At that time I was guarding the balloon interest on the spot - in the country.Ready for balloon flights with passengers over Silesia.

Ready to carry passengers with a balloon for heated air.In March 2020.Due to the unknown new coronavirus, the authorities blocked the possibility of such flying.For two months I could only regretfully look at the cheerful sky.And dream of flying.

Beginning of 2021., paralyzed by strange, not always well -thought -out movements and decisions of the state authorities, looks similar.I have more time again to browse and organize my aviation antiques.

Last year, part of my aviation archive went to the trash after faeces flooded my former studio.This happened in less than a year, the old sewage division for a new one.Old, original sewage system from the 70s.for 30 years she did not cause trouble.After the replacement.The head of the HousingCooperative at the Katowice Millennium has nothing to complain about.Guilty - other tenants, because they used the sewage system in pandemic.They sat at home, ate and s ...

I admit that when I started my adventure in high schools, I did not think that after years I would have connected the most beautiful memories with balloons.Although then, at the beginning of the air road, I did not find out at all to do something as unemployed in the air as a balloon.Every young loves speed and sometimes height.I had it.The plan was simple.Gliders first, then planes.And professional civilian flying.

However, life - especially in the PRL - was able to verify individual plants.It often turned out that it was not always possible.Because that power had its own long -term calculations and intentions.And aviation belonged to the most regulated disciplines.For this, the military ruled it at that time.And they distributed cards, often marked.Today's power behaves similarly.Only that he calls it a pro -family policy.Politics for yours.

But there is nothing to complain about.Several thousand hours in the air are really many adventures and memories.Half falls on the balloons that I took care of by accident.Actually by the driving license I have done earlier.Well, one day in the 70s.The BalloonClub Section in the plan to make a start of a gas balloon from the Provincial Park ofCulture and Recreation inChorzów.The opportunity was official, commissioned by the PZPR ProvincialCommittee.On the occasion of state holidays, KW PZPR organized various festivals and events in the aforementioned Park to Silesian workers.It was so on May 1, on the feast of the party newspaper, which was Silesia "Robotnicza Tribuna", July 22 and other ad hoc occasions.One of the attractions was a balloon.Then - a gas balloon, one for flights in the Gordon BennettCup, for the longest distance.

It was just one of these opportunities.The authorities expected that in favorable weather conditions the aeroclub would fulfill the task.Only the driver was missing in the balloon section.The club did not have a driver.And because before the often leaving for gliders for gliders, which landed in a casual area, it fell on me.

And so as a glider I became the driver of the balloon section.Club nysa with a trailer I was doing well.After experience with a long glider trailer, a short balloon trailer, the more it didn't cause me any trouble.Well, maybe outside the technical.She was able to break unexpectedly or lose a wheel while driving.

And so, during one of the next trips to the flight from WPKiW.I remember, I was not drawn to it, I was Ibronizing against their idea.Because, as I said earlier, I underestimated nothing interesting in the seat in a basket hung under the balloon coating.But they have already decided.

After more than two hours of hard work with the preparation of a balloon for a flight, a few times hanging 200 ballast bags with sand along with several older colleagues took a place in the balloon basket.Approx.30 sandbags hung outside the basket, in the middle six took part of the floor.The balloon undermined by the commander was slightly broken from the ground at a small speed of less than a meter, the name began to rise.Down, on the ground, we were said goodbye to several thousand, which previously watched preparations for the start.

The start was noiseless.The balloon rose in silence higher and higher, the peeling of the northwest, towards Piekary Śląskie and TarnowskiegoGór.Downside, lower and lower, full of crushed, feverish people became smaller and smaller.The powerful blocks of the millennium also lost its size.Even the Silesian Stadium with a high press tower for guests and journalists clearly shrunk.I stood in the open space and based on the side of the basket, I watched the images that slowly moved under us.We raised ok.1.5 thousand.m above the ground and sailed over Silesian cities.

I didn't have to do anything in this flight, I could only devote myself to.I was so high above the land for the first time.I didn't even have to dress a parachute.Just in case, parachutes rested in the corner of the basket, right next to the ballastications with sand.

It was a completely new, amazing experience.There were sounds from the ground in the silence of the balloon.After passing the Tarnowskie Góry, the balloon commander lowered Lotdo OK.100 m above the ground.When we drew into rural buildings, the towns came alive.The closer to the houses we were, the louder it was and the more and more dogs were barking, and home birds contributed their votes.Gęgały geese, ducks Kwakala, chickens.The overwhelmed ranks nervously drove their chickens to chicken coops.Also, ducks and geese tried to hide in chicken coops or under dense home bushes.However, they did it slower and more majestic than chickens.Barking and a harmider caused by home birds provoked some residents to check the causes of noise.I saw how they walked were on earth, what was the reason for such behavior.Until someone did not speak, almost nobody on the ground looked at the sky.It was only the voice that made the hosts the cause of the unprecedented mess.Some took advantage of the conversation with the balloon crew.

After more than four hours of flight, we landed near Lubliniec.The landing was calm and gentle in total.And yet, at the moment of the balloon coating, the delicate tremor passed and the sleeve at the bottom of the coating fell into the basket..Plus a very fragrant coke gas that we used to fill the coating.It was for me, because whenever I got a car under the balloon, he was just packed and his colleagues dressed in a different outfit than to fly.

In this way I went through my baptism.It was June 1978.I knew what my older colleagues see in a balloon flights.

Since then, I became a permanent member of the balloon section and when I was so much, I tried to find myself in the basket as a member of the volatile crew.

10 years later - in 1988.- The club received its first balloon for heated air.A year later we got another one, and I got a free balloon pilot license and I devoted more and more time to flying balloons.The more that the plans of professional aircraft flying still did not go to the happy final.

Balloons for heated air incredibly increased our flying capabilities.They did not require as much work and preparation as a gas balloon.To fly a gas, we had to bring 4 to sand to the starting pad.200 bags used for ballast -plane during filling with gas lighter than air.This gas was usually flammable.In Silesia it was a coke gas, used then to power home -made gas stoves throughout the agglomeration.Apart from Silesia, we used hydrogen.Coking gas had one disadvantage-it contained a large amount of soot (on average 15-20 g/m3), which caused the nozzles in the apartments in the stoves.And for a balloon with a capacity of 2200 cubic meters.it meant ok.30-40 kg of soot settling inside the coating with each filling.This soot always turned into a black, volatile ball falling into the basket at the time of the use.In addition, the coating of such a balloon weighed only 450 kg and you needed a minimum of eight peasant to move it or even load it on a trailer.A similar coating for a balloon for heated air weighed only 90 kg.Colossal difference.

Putting the balloon on heated air occupies a four -person crew OK.10-15 minutes, after which the balloon can fly calmly.Gazowiec - a dozen or so people - he took two to four hours of really hard work.

Certainly some of you had the opportunity to fly a balloon.Egypt - the Kings Valley orCappadocia in Turkey are probably the most famous places of such flights.Every year, American Albuquerque focuses several hundred balloons for heated air.The richer could survive the morning safari from the deck of a large balloon in Kenya.

Today, balloons for heated air are everywhere.Different sizes and usually very colorful, they attract attention from afar.Personally, after years of sports flying, I became an instructor and a commercial balloon pilot.

I am one of the pilots in my friend's private company.I can make up to two flights a day in our climate.First - early in the morning, just after dawn.Second - OK.Two or three hours before sunset.In tropical and subtropical countries, you can generally only make a morning flight.In the afternoons it can be too hot.

Each balloon flight for heated air is unique.Even flying with the same route, you have different impressions each time.Education flights, shortly after sunrise, are often associated with the morning dew of names' mists, lying in the depressions of the area.After the night he is cooler and crisp.There are no thermal phenomena related to the sunlight yet.The winds are more stable and weaker at all heights.

Before evening the air is still heated.In general, there are also no mists that add an additional color of the earth of the earth.In addition, there are still so -called.thermal winds, stronger than in the morning and can definitely change the direction just before the planned landing.Afternoon flights, however, are more convenient for most passengers.You don't have to get up very early to get in the air at dawn.In addition, sun -warmed earth, steaming, fills the space above it with various fragrances of crops, trees or the effects of human activity.It can be amazing and surprising.

A balloon for heated air attracts attention.Each use of the burner is a large noise of a few seconds, audible on earth from highly.And the burner is used often.Only that everyone in the basket quickly gets used to this noise and stops reacting to it.Thanks to the coaches of the smokers powered by liquid propane or propane-butane.And regardless of its size.As a pilot, I just have to remember about the specificity of the balloon.The higher the coating capacity and the size of the basket, which is associated with the number of passengers taken, the greater the inertia of such a balloon.The smallerbalon reacts faster to work on the burner.Therefore, smaller ones are easier to operate in a low flight, next to the ground, just above the tops of the trees or low over the buildings.

Balloons for heated air from the name of French creators of this type of balloon are called Montgolfiers.The term used in the environment is mulled.Because the balloon gets its load -bearing force thanks to the heating of the closed air inside the coating.During the flight, its temperature can be up to 120 degrees.C.

I know from experience that the best views are between 50 and 200m above the ground.From these heights, all elements of the earth's surface can be seen in detail, and in conditions of high air transparency you can see up to 60-70 km horizontally.In addition, all Earth's creations react to the balloon height flying in this area and they are easily noticeable from the basket.Czasami wznoszę się zdecydowanie wyżej – do1500 czy 2000 m.However, then all the details of the oversleep are blurred.No animals or people are seen anymore.Even noticing a large car can be a big problem for the average man.Cóż, odległość robi swoje.Czy to w poziomie, czy w pionie.A kilometer is a kilometer, whether we look ahead or under each other.High flying usually resembles watching the map.But at higher heights you can fly at a higher speed than just above the ground.This is due to the specificity of the earthly atmosphere.But this is already the worry of the pilot who plans to make a given flight.Because you have to prepare separately for each flight.

Good preparation avoids unpleasant surprises and achieve the state of almost euphoric elation and satisfaction.Such an ecstasy to transfer our psyche into completely unknown regions.Our land is really beautiful when we look at it even from smallness, e.g..right from the top of the tree.You don't believe?

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Photos: Tomasz Raszka, Adam Gruszecki, flights.pl