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The Rise and Rise of Balloon Racing’s First Family
You might not think much about wind. Storms, sure, but you may not ponder the forces behind the soft, warm breezes that bend the switchgrass or the stiff, cold northers that sting the cheeks. You haven’t studied the physics of gases that yearn for stabilization and rush from high- to low-pressure areas. You don’t analyze the various wind currents flowing in different directions at different altitudes, moving like the traffic on some Dallas interchange in the sky.And why would you? You’re not a competitive hot-air balloonist. You’re not someone who dreams of catching and riding the waves of the great invisible, swaying in a wicker basket thousands of feet in the air with only the heat of a propane flame to aid your lift. You’re…The post The Rise and Rise of Balloon Racing’s First Family appeared first on Texas Monthly.