Floating over the Richelieu River
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(photo by Jenn Goldbloom) |
Balloons taking off from the airport
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 | Celebrating with the landowners after the flight. Starting at top left: 3 landowners, and crew: Pascale, Martin, Nathale, Maryse, Gene(me),and Carole
(photo by Jenn Goldbloom) |
Locomotive taking off from the airport
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 | 2002 - Looking back at the balloons setting up at the airport
(photo by Blair Beard)
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2002 - ClipAway Balloon over the Richelieu River
(photo from local Canadian Newspaper)
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Future Balloonist (or why did everyone walk away from me)??
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AHHHH I"ve got just the thing for you .....
(photo by Gene)
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| 2004 ClipAway"s handlers (Top L-R):
Jean-Jacques, Dominique, Mario, Pierre, Sylvain
Gene (pilot) kneeling ---Back to Top |
| Stephanie and Marie-Claude enjoy hanging out in the sky (photo by Gene) |  |
 | ClipAway landed before the rains came (photo by Jenn Goldbloom)
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| Watching balloons filling the sky as they cross over the Richelieu River |  |
 | Finally after a few years Dominique"s mom gathered up the courage to take flight in "ClipAway".
I snapped this picture as we descended to 4000 feet just after the crew called to ask how she was doing (is there really any question?)
After landing, "mom" was ready to go again!!
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My crew and I together enjoying a dinner. Starting on the left: Olivier, Katrine, Stephanie, Pierre, Dominique, and myself
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 | Balloons adding color to the morning sky (credit: Marie Giroux, Daniel Auger) |
| Balloons waltzing over the cloud reflection on the Richelieu River |  |
 | Balloons invading a quiet neighborhood (credit: The Bedard family) |
| Thanks to my 2007 crew -- Without you it would not have been possible for me to fly ALL 9 days of the festival!!
Top L-R Michael, Jacqueline, Dominique, Myself, Stephanie. Bottom L-R Joanie and Valerie
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| ClipAway starting to cross the Richelieu River in the morning sunshine. (credit: Laura Peterson) |
The flight was cancelled, but my crew stuck around for a few laughs and to enjoy the double rainbows. ---Back to Top
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During pack-up on the last flight of the festival, my passengers (2 on right front) and crew |
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Hurry to the pitstop,,,, the fog is lifting ... we are going to fly!!! |  Over the years I've landed many times on this one landowner"s property. This particular morning, with the landowner (Ghislaine in center) wearing a ClipAway crew shirt, I was able to FLY her back to the farm!!! |
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What else is there to do after celebrating a morning flight? Take the crew out to breakfast and meet up with new friends! (photo credit Line Cusson) | St.Jean-sur-Richelieu has drawn ClipAway and her pilot back since her first appearance in 2002. I hope these pictures show why. Thanks to my crew, wonderful people and memories, I again look forward to returning. |
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| 2010 |  |
Pictures below from start to finish of a winery landing flight - provided by Diane Brennan, one of the passengers on this flight
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Pictures from passengers Diane and Josiane Desroches (1st they had to find the pilot, then they put on a fashion show for gloves)
To top it all off, after the flight they stayed to help with the night glow!
ClipAway caught heading for a beautiful landing (picture credit Dean Carlton)
Left: Michel and his two sons (looks like i'll have crew for years to come).
Right: crew pic for 2010 (note: 2 new crewmembers, Guy Trembley on the left, and Michel Borassa 2nd from right
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