Balloons over Waikato 2008 - The dawn patrol.

This video is for my aviation website: http://www.nzaviation.com/

I was told I'd have to get up early to catch a selected group of balloonists taking to the air before first light.

With the lure of a free breakfast for the first 2000 spectators filed through to collect their freebies while in the background the first few balloons were being inflated.

As each balloon was inflated and took to the sky it started to look like floating candles. This was the first time that I had seen this with my own eyes so seeing it thought the eyes of a camera just didn't do it any justice.

This video shows a selection of the "Dawn Patrol" balloons filling and then taking off.

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[MarxismBeta]

I be keen to go to this, any 2009 footage or hasn't it been yet?

[philipnewmannz]

I never went to this years one :-( I was down in Christchurch when it was on.

[MarxismBeta]

guttered, i was just gonna ask a very dumb question i glad i looked at the title to save myself from such a shame.

[philipnewmannz]

Better to ask a dumb question than make a dumb mistake!

[VinillaFarmer]

Air balloons at night are the coolest things ever.

[philipnewmannz]

Yeah, they are also hard to film with an automatic camera :P

[crey014]

Pretty.