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> Greetings from central Texas.  I thought I would take a moment to
> introduce myself to everybody.  I'm a long-time hot-air pilot, having been
> certified in Jan. of 1975.  Over the years, I have owned four hot air
> balloons, three of which were experimental.  But even before all that, I
> built a double walled AX-2 that Donna Wiederkehr used to set the world
> records for duration and distance.  In addition, I've built two other
> envelopes and substantially rebuilt two more.  
> 
> I'm now shifting my focus to gas ballooning and recently purchased a
> partially built BC Corp. bag (that a Tim Cole kit) and am building a
> basket to go along with it.  Fellow Austenite Phillip MacNutt and I are
> jointly working on this.  You can follow our basket making project here:
> 
> http://www.jump.net/~macnutt/gasbasket.html
> 
> This is the first homebuilding project I've done in many years and I have
> to say I'm having a blast.  I'm actually sorry to see the basket nearly
> finished as there will be nothing left to work on.  As I look forward to
> where ballooning will take me, I see that it will mostly involve
> experimental systems, parts of which I'll be building myself.
> 
> Thanks to Tom for setting up a forum for us to ask questions and give
> answers.  I look forward to being a regular contributor of both.
> 
> Greg Winker
> 
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