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1st Annual NBC "Les Nessman Memorial Turkey Drop" November 18, 2006: |
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) Competition for the 'Best Dressed Chicken' award |
) A group of turkeys and their rubber chickens |
) The chickens |
) The Yellow Bird crew's entry |
) The Winners - the Gunhus/Dinkleman crew |
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Third Annual Wakefield, NE Hot Air Balloon Festival, October 14-15, 2006: |
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) The Hare-and-Hounds |
) Balloon Walk |
 inflates ´Hobbit´')) Gary Palmer (center) inflates Hobbit |
) Lift-off, Saturday afternoon flight |
) Balloon Glow Saturday evening |
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Jill Niebur & TJ Johnson's Wedding, August 18, 2006 |
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) Jill & TJ exchange vows |
) Mr. and Mrs. TJ and Jill Johnson |
) TJ and Jill cutting their wedding cake |
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Ron Dobesh's Checkride, July 16, 2006 |
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) Ron Dobesh takes off on his checkride flight |
) Ron eases Blue Taz between the trees on approach to landing |
) Congratulations, Pilot Ron! |
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NBC Pilots at the 2006 National Balloon Classic, Indianola, IA Photo credits: Paul Craven |
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) Matthew Grote approaches the target |
) Rob Skiba in Kryptonite |
) The crew of Wild Goose guides her to a landing |
) Steve Lacroix leads the pack |
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Columbus, NE Rally July 14-16, 2006: |
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) Friday evening launch preparations |
) Friday evening's flight heads over town |
) Saturday morning launch |
) Greeting the dawn |
) Tracking northeast over the airport |
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Council Bluffs Community Pride Week Parade May 20, 2006: |
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) Propane Addiction and Blue Taz lift off together, 5/20/06 |
) Nathan, Matthew, Ron, Tom and Rick warming up |
) Steve Lacroix rises to the occasion |
) Matthew shows the crowd that ballooning is a blast |
) Dreamtime and Crew at Squire John Thomas Elementary, Gretna 5/24/06 |
) Yellow Bird and Blue Olive over the Elkhorn River, 5/6/06 |
) The Lacroix's new balloon on their maiden flight, 4/28/06 |
) Feeding the Propane Addiction, 4/28/06 |
) Eight NBC balloons prepare to fly from Lake Zorinsky, 4/22/06 |
) Morgan and Emmy looking on |
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Six-balloon flight from Lake Zorinsky 4-8-2006: |
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: ´Third Priority´, ´Kryptonite´ and ´Dreamtime´ at Zorinsky, 4/8/2006')) (l-r): Third Priority, Kryptonite and Dreamtime |
) Matthew Grote preparing to launch |
) Matthew's crew walk him out of the flight line |
) Rich Jaworski watches Grote's ascent |
: ´Kryptonite´, ´Grote´s not Rich´, and ´Second Wind´')) (l-r): Kryptonite, Grote's not Rich, and Second Wind |
: ´Grote´s not Rich</i>, ´Third Priority´, ´Second Wind´ and ´Dreamtime´ over West Omaha')) |
) Ring out the old and ring in the new; Grote & Jaworski, New Year's Eve 2005 |
) Jaworski & crew at Hudson, Feb. 3, 2006 |
) NBC members at the IBA Safety Seminar March, 2006 |
) Rich Jaworski honored as IBA's 2006 Pilot of the Year |
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NBC Banquet January 21, 2006 at Farmer Brown's in Waterloo Photo credits: Steve Palash |
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) The Wollens and Elsassers |
 receives the ´Pyronaut´ award from last year´s winner, Matthew Grote')) Jim Gunhus receives the 'Pyronaut' award from Matthew Grote |
 presents the ´Turkey´ award to Steve Lacroix')) Wayne Morhing presents the 'Turkey' award to Steve Lacroix |
 shares his memories of Russel ´Uncle Bud´ Kiehl, for whom the NBC Crew of the Year award is named')) Mark Enholm shares memories of Russel 'Uncle Bud' Kiehl |
 receives the 2006 Crew of the Year award from Gene Elsasser')) Rick Wollen receives the 2006 Crew of the Year award |
) First flight of 2006: Lake Zorinsky January 7, 2006 |
) 50 degrees in January? |
) Ice skating, anyone? Blue Olive, RE/Max and Dreamtime |
) Celebrating Rich's 1st tether of Adventure of the Heart 12/12/05 |
) Inflating Adventure of the Heart, 1/7/06 |
) Adventure of the Heart, 1/7/06 |
) Cole meets Kryptonite, 12/23/05 |
) Glenda gets into Kryptonite |
) Kryptonite's First inflation |
) Birth of a Superhero |
) Captain K |
) "Spandex is not for everyone!" |
) Great Plains Balloon Race, Sioux Falls, SD, June 2005 |
) Saturday morning sunrise flight at Wakefield 2005 |
) BalloonHilda at Wakefield 2005 |
) IWCC LTA Balloon Fair 2005 |
) IWCC LTA Balloon Fair 2005 |
) IWCC LTA Balloon Fair 2005 |
) Matthew Grote in flight, August, 2005 |
) NBC Club Picnic Flight, 7/16/05 |
) Pacific Springs Fly-over, 7/1/05 |
) NBC Memorial Day Flight 5/30/05 |
) NBC Memorial Day Flight 5/30/05 |
) NBC Memorial Day Flight 5/30/05 |
) Matthew Grote's Solo Flight 5/15/05 |
) 1st Wakefield, NE Rally - 10/30/04 |
) IWCC LTA Balloon Fair 8/20/04 |
) NBC Club Flight, Glenwood, IA 9/25/04 |
) Peterson, Lacroix, Elsasser, Gretna, NE 9/26/04 |
) Mr. Twister in flight May, 2005 |
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