www.ltaflightmagazine.com Issue No. 14 Spring 2019 March - May 2019 This Spring 2019 PDF is in progress. Please feel free to download now or later in May 2019, when it is completed with more stories. Thank you. # Content Page 1 Tracy Barnes: Pioneer of Lighter-than-Air Flight 2 Office Location: Maryland, USA Contact Information: Sitara Maruf Phone: (240) 426-2040 Emails:
[email protected] [email protected] Website: www.ltaflightmagazine.com Issue No.14 Spring 2019 March - May 2019 1) Tracy Barnes: Pioneer of Lighter-than-Air Flight University of Minnesota, Barnes made his first hot-air balloon Old Lumpy with five by Sitara Maruf, 2nd Mar. 2019 used army parachutes. For the gondola, he had a flimsy lawn-chair with two barbecue- grill style small propane tanks on either side, and a burner way above his head to heat the air inside the balloon. On 13th October 1961 (some accounts say 23rd September), seated on the contraption that dangled precariously from the balloon, Barnes rose to 8,000 feet. In an interview with WSIC-TV News in 2017, Barnes said that until that time, he had never seen a balloon and had never been up in a balloon. “I had to make it all up; figure out how to do it. Make the burner, make the balloon, make something to sit in, and off I went. It was pretty crude, but it worked, by golly.” The previous era of ballooning had continued from its birth in 1783 to the end of the nineteenth century. Revival of the hot-air balloon began around 1958 at Raven Industries, which led to the birth of the modern hot-air balloon.