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Ken Kennedy - Terpsnickery
The Nebraska Balloon club honors the memory of our long-time member and friend, Ken Kennedy, who passed away on July 10, 2008.
Ken Kennedy was builder and pilot of Terpsnickery.
A resident of Broken Bow, NE, Ken was unique among NBC's pilots in that he was the designer and builder of both Terpsnickery and his earlier balloon "Ytivarg" ("Gravity" backwards), as well as Ron Dobesh's Blue Taz, and supervised Cathy Luenenborg in creating Mr. Twister.
One of ballooning's pioneers, Don Piccard, offered the following rememberance in a note to Ken's son, balloonist Craig Kennedy of Albuquerque:
He was indeed a great man and a great asset to the sport. My friendship with him was one of the best things in my career in ballooning.
For those who didn't know him, he was a down to earth regular guy with no phony pretensions. I think being an expert mechanic and machinist, which he was, brings one into reality. He may have been my junior by a decade, but I always looked up to him and in many ways considered him a mentor.
My only anhydrous ammonia flight was with him. He had imagination.
God speed Ken,
Don Piccard
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